M&A Blog and News
November 28, 2017
See How Your Region Will Perform in the Coming Months.
Submitted by Intralinks
How will your region’s M&A activity perform over the next six months? Find out – plus get a wealth of actionable market intelligence – in the current edition of the Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor.
November 28, 2017
Use These Strategies to Navigate One of the Most Challenging Integration Scenarios
By Mark Herndon, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council
Over the last few years, divestitures have comprised a rapidly increasing percentage of total M&A transaction value. If your organization is like most, you've done far more acquisitions than divestitures, and you may now be responding on the fly to this renewed sell-side challenge. Conversely, if your organization is an experienced Buyer, you may now be challenged with how to integrate certain divested assets, entities or divisions divested from a corporate whole, but less than the entire company as you have integrated before. If so, welcome to the world of integrating carve-outs...one of the most challenging of all integration scenarios!
November 28, 2017
The Coming Year Brings More Global M&A Deal Activity.
By Jim Jeffries, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council
As your M&A team looks ahead to the coming year, what do you see? Experts predict that 2018 will be a banner year for global M&A transactions, so now is the time to start preparing your organization to maximize value on every deal. Here’s a look at eight M&A trends for 2018.
November 27, 2017
Over the last two years, divestitures have comprised a rapidly increasing percentage of total M&A transaction value. If your organization is like most, you've done far more acquisitions than divestitures, and you may now be responding on the fly to this renewed sell-side challenge. Conversely, if your organization is an experienced Buyer, you may now be challenged with how to integrate certain divested assets, entities or divisions divested from a corporate whole, but less than the entire company as you have integrated before.
November 21, 2017
The 2017 Global Benefits Attitudes Survey examines the role of benefits in the employee value proposition.
Submitted by Willis Towers Watson
The Willis Towers Watson Global Benefits Attitudes Survey (GBAS) examines the role of benefits in defining and differentiating today’s employee value proposition. The survey explores the extent to which benefits individually and collectively shape employees’ actions; how closely they align with employees’ employment and lifestyle priorities; and their links to stress, absence, presenteeism and work engagement.
November 21, 2017
Mergermarket and Willis Towers Watson publish a joint M&A report.
Submitted by Mergermarket
Mergermarket is pleased to present Hitting the Right Targets, published in association with Willis Towers Watson. Based on interviews with 200 senior-level executives within the insurance industry, the report explores how insurers are optimizing their capital strategies and what effect this will have on the M&A market.
October 30, 2017
Bypassing due diligence proves a costly mistake.
By Bill Blandford, Member of the Board of M&A Standards
We learned the hard way how important due diligence really is! The Buyer, the management of one product line, purchased a very small-carve out from a firm in China. Because it was so small, the deal didn’t go through the Corporate Due Diligence office.
October 30, 2017
Here are just a few ghost stories and some suggestions on how to remain steady.
By Michael Williams, Managing Director, Transaction Advisory Services, BDO USA LLP
Occasionally deal makers have fleeting moments of fright about buying what may seem to be something of a haunted house. Some ghastly surprises may cast a pall on deciding to stay in the deal. With a few days – and late nights - of due diligence, we may find skeletons hanging in closets and monsters lurking under beds.