M&A Blog and News
October 27, 2017
November events will take place in New York City and Mexico City.
Submitted by Mergermarket
Mergermarket, an Acuris brand, will host two M&A forums in November.
October 23, 2017
Take a closer look at how AI is changing the workplace and challenging our core governance, risk and compliance (GRC) models.
Submitted by Capital Expert Services
As industries consolidate, and more companies pursue M&A, buyers need to be more vigilant than ever in their due diligence regarding what artificial intelligence (AI)
and autonomous systems (AS) risks lurk within any given transaction.
October 2, 2017
Workshop Attendees Share Their Lessons.
By Jack Prouty, President of the M&A Leadership Council
Next month is your last chance in 2017 to join the M&A Leadership Council for The Art of M&A Due Diligence. In this unique workshop setting, you’ll dive into best practices in due diligence alongside your colleagues and M&A experts from BDO, Willis Towers Watson and others. Here’s a look at some of the lessons that past attendees learned from The Art of M&A Due Diligence.
September 20, 2017
Cybersecurity, social media and artificial intelligence are all shaping the scope, strategy and tactics of due diligence.
By Jim Jeffries, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council
What does the future of proper due diligence look like? In the past decade, M&A professionals have moved beyond checklists to take a more robust, strategic approach to due diligence. Meanwhile, technology has come to play an increasingly important role in due diligence, both in the form of tools for M&A practitioners and as a source for identifying potential risks and issues. While exposure to cyber breaches has become a critical issue, we cannot ignore social media or artificial intelligence.
August 29, 2017
Successful Acquirers Consistently Include HR on the M&A Deal Team
By Kelly Karger, Senior Mergers & Acquisitions and Retirement Consultant, Willis Towers Watson, a Partner of the M&A Leadership Council
What are the leading causes of M&A deal failures? Research over the past years has consistently highlighted the role of people issues (from talent retention to organizational culture) in M&A deal value erosion.
August 29, 2017
Introductory Seminar Addresses AI-Related Worker Dislocation and Corporate Upheaval
Submitted by Capital Expert Services
Smart automation is rapidly changing the way we do business and having a disruptive socioeconomic impact. The most sophisticated forms of automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems (AS, also called robotics), are now able to do what was considered science fiction only a few years ago.
August 28, 2017
A Step that Tells the Financial "Story" of a Business
By Tom Jones, Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, BDO USA LLP, a Partner of the M&A Leadership Council
There are clear benefits to performing sell-side due diligence in connection with the sale of a business. More sellers are investing in sell-side financial due diligence as a key component of a well-run sales process which, for many reasons, there is no substitute for when it comes to selling a business.
August 25, 2017
Technology Unlocks New Possibilities
By Kalle Kilpi of Midaxo, a partner of the M&A Leadership Council
It’s easy to understand how digitalization disrupts industries like retail shops in a game-changing way.It’s harder to understand how digitalization provides a game-changing disruption to knowledge work, such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Sure, many meetings are replaced by collaborative tools and Excel spreadsheets are replaced with online project management trackers, but that is not yet real, game-changing disruption enabled by digitalization.