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7 Reasons to Adopt Automated Reporting and Best Practice Templates
Traditional M&A reporting – on your pipeline, on the progress of acquisitions, or on the status of integrations – is typically tedious and time-consuming. The …
10 Steps to a More Successful M&A Due Diligence Process
The M&A due diligence process has (thankfully) moved well beyond physical data rooms and floor to ceiling stacks of folders. The new normal for an …
Six Considerations When Choosing an M&A Software Solution
The M&A software market is relatively new to the B2B technology landscape. Consequently, it can be difficult to have a firm grasp on the questions …
3 Divestment Strategy Frameworks to Align Portfolios
Since the year 2000, 52% of the Fortune 500 companies have disappeared from the rankings – largely as a result of digital disruption. Now – more than …
Corporate Development & Post-Deal Implementation
Not too long ago, corporate development departments were focused almost exclusively on acquisitions. Now, these teams run a whole spectrum of deal types including corporate …
6 Reasons to Transition to Automated Task Reporting
Reporting across multiple projects for routine (or ad hoc) status reports is typically characterized as a draining manual process – where a vast PowerPoint of jumbled …
7 M&A Pipeline Metrics You Should Be Tracking
Intro: Tracking pipeline metrics goes a long way to providing a constant health check of M&A and corporate development initiatives. Doing so can provide valuable …
5 Reasons Why You Need to Automate M&A Reporting
M&A reporting has traditionally been characterized by a manual process, whereby deal teams collate reams of data and work it into a static PowerPoint report – …
Establish a Winning M&A Process: Start with the Basics
In looking to establish an M&A process, it’s important to start with the basics and add detail gradually. A common mistake is to “copy & …
What You Need to Know About SaaS Due Diligence
Slack is worth over $5 billion. Shopify, $10 billion. LinkedIn was acquired for $26 billion and Salesforce is nearing $100 billion in market cap. The …
How to Approach IT Post-Merger Integration
Information Technology within companies has moved from a position in which it is seen as a cost to one in which it is seen as …
GDPR Compliance: New Rules For M&A?
n May 25th, 2018, the major data privacy legislation known as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect. GDPR introduces substantial changes to existing European Union privacy …
Digitalization of Retail Banking & Implications for M&A
Few industries are undergoing shifts and transformation the way retail banking is today. An industry that, for decades, has struggled under the burden of regulation, …
How to Plan & Execute a Post-Merger Integration
Whether the objective is obtaining a new business unit by acquisition or merger, re-organizing different divisions of a company or building up an in-depth partnership, …
Success Factors in Corporate Venturing
The impetus for corporate venturing is obvious: a corporation’s investment in startup companies can create new means to drive growth, financial return and advance strategic …
Spend More Time Thinking About IT Due Diligence
Technological advancement is changing the way companies compete. The torrid pace of innovation requires commitment to digital transformation in a way that few companies can …
7 Post-Merger Integration Best Practices – Deal ROI
First, the bad news. HBR cites research suggesting that 60% of significant mergers actually destroy shareholder value. Other published research notes deal failure rates of anywhere between 50% …
5 Key Steps To Capturing M&A Synergies
Closing a deal is difficult – however, the capturing of synergies post-deal is arguably even more difficult. The objective of M&A is to create value …
9 Key Steps to Post-Merger Integration Success
Across the M&A life-cycle, post-merger integration is one of the most critical processes to ensuring a successful acquisition. While taking a prudent approach to valuation and not overpaying …
Talent Retention in M&A: Best Practices
An M&A strategy might make perfect sense on paper, but the core driver – people – can easily be ignored. While for many organizations hard …
Greater Than the Sum: Estimating M&A Synergies
Many acquisitions are justified on the basis that they will create synergies – being when the combined post-merger integration value of two companies working as one is …
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