One of the most persistent and perplexing challenges many acquirers struggle with is inadequate M&A team resourcing.

The M&A resource problem plagues experienced acquirers as well as inexperienced ones. There simply never seems to be a good match between the resources actually needed and the resources made available. Predictably, resource constraints negatively impact the ability to achieve the deal’s intended financial and business objectives or impede the ability to quickly mobilize and execute on fast-paced, opportunistic acquisitions.

Stack the Deck in Your Favor
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council 

If you compare M&A results over the last 20 years, you’ll notice the data has barely changed. Between 50 and 70% of all deals underperform their original business objectives. Facing this very real risk, what can businesses do to improve their odds? 

The Impact of M&A on IT
By Mark Rapier, Senior Advisor, M&A Partners

Information technology (IT) is often cast in terms of its role in M&A and its significance to risk mitigation, operational continuity, and achieving optimal deal results. Yet, many C-level executives outside of IT don’t have an adequate understanding of how M&A impacts the IT 

Chairman’s Message – March 2021
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council 

Over the last two years, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have dominated the IPO market. According to BusinessInsider, 219 SPACs raised $73B in new IPOs during 2020 alone. 

Are the New Employees Ready?
By Jahan Mirun Jaganmohan, Integration Leader at TIBCO; and Mark Herndon, Chairman, M&A Leadership Council

Brands and human capital are fundamentally important assets of any M&A transaction. Yet many acquirers fail to effectively prepare and align employees of the target company to embrace and adopt the acquirer’s brand and organizational values.

How to Lead Your Next Acquisition from Chaos to Consistent, Repeatable Results: Recommendations from Five M&A Experts 
Released by the M&A Leadership Council 

Chairman’s Message – February 2021
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council

With substantial capital available, acquirers are anticipating greater deal volume and more competition among potential buyers, especially more experienced or more agile private equity or SPAC buyers.  Many active acquirers are doing multiple, simultaneous, and overlapping deals; often with different deal-types, structures and with varying degrees of risk and integration challenges.

Chairman’s Message – January 2021
By Mark Herndon, Chairman of the M&A Leadership Council

In addition to our excellent educational content and fantastic Alumni community helping you get every aspect of M&A right in your organization, we are pleased to debut several important “can’t miss” webinars

Board M&A Tips for the New Normal
Mark Herndon Interviews with Boardroom Insider

For the global economy, 2020 was no doubt a series of shocks, but the crashing lows seem to have been followed by some giddy highs (in late November the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average finished above 30,000 for the first time in history).  Merger and acquisition activity has been bouncy too. 

2020 Global M&A Report with financial league tables
Submitted by Mergermarket, an Acuris Company and partner of the M&A Leadership Council 

M&A activity in the first half was subdued (USD 971.0bn), leading to an overall 6.6% year-on-year decline by value. Amid the social and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19, deal count was down 15.5%, from 20,767 to 17,545. While a few sectors fell, others rose, making it a bumpy ride for deal professionals.