M&A Blog and News
May 30, 2016
Corporate Email Isn't Glamorous, but It's Critical -- and Made More Challenging by The Cloud
By Vadim Gringolts, CTO, Binary Tree, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council
Corporate email is as critical of an IT application as any other, albeit frequently overlooked in favor of more glamorous and resource-consuming ones.....
May 30, 2016
Some Interesting M&A Data
Provided by Mergermarket, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council
SPORTS 'n STATS: This month Mergermarket contributes observations on how sports are changing with the increasing use of wearable technology, sabermetrics, and the analysis of statistics and physiology to optimize performance.....
May 18, 2016
I’ll be the first to admit that I am in desperate need of a new hobby. But this weekend, I spent some time analyzing data from our recent survey, the State of M&A Integration Effectiveness, related to synergies. My purpose was to bring to light additional insights regarding what specific integration practices executives can focus on to ensure they are driving maximum synergies in their post-deal integration efforts.
May 18, 2016
Do you have an integration project (or a work-stream within an integration) that is OBE? That’s a common military term meaning, “overcome by events.” Every integrator has been there, done that, and has at least one T-shirt that says so. It’s a far more common problem than most folks care to admit. Here’s how it often comes about: the integration starts off great and has a successful pre-close integration planning phase, which sets up a successful short-term operational integration of the business, synergies and steady-state operations.
May 11, 2016
We recently introduced the term “deal-count paradox” to highlight the condition of sophisticated acquirers with lots of deal-count experience who still struggle with fundamental disconnects in M&A processes and skill sets that lead to M&A value erosion. (See Don’t Fumble on the Goal Line.)
"The pre-closing data most critical for assessing and planning a fast, combined and successful post-close go-to-market campaign was almost entirely restricted by legal counsel.”
April 28, 2016
Chairman's Message, April 2016
By Jim Jeffries, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council
What are the characteristics and responsibilities of successful leaders in the integration process? The question came up at this month’s “Art of M&A Integration” program, held in sunny Orlando. We had a great crowd with a variety of past experiences, however, once again.....
April 28, 2016
Wed, May 25, 2016 @ 12:00PM ET
Presented by Binary Tree, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council
Migrating users to the Microsoft cloud can be a complex undertaking but moving them between two Office 365 cloud tenants, whether to support a merger, acquisition, divestiture or other business change, will add even more complexity. Properly configuring identity integration …