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Mergers and Acquisitions Archives - M&A

March 5, 2025

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are complex investment decisions that involve considerable capital, strategic positioning, and industry-specific knowledge. In particular, a sell-side M&A event is when the seller divests into another investor for financial purposes. Understanding different types of auctions that can be used during this process is critical for achieving maximum value from a potential...

November 5, 2018
Motivations for Pursuing Growth by Mergers & Acquisitions: The Seven “C” Incentives for Doing a Deal

Vast opportunities exist when experts can effectively implement an acquisition strategy as a means for reducing costs, gaining access to new business and increasing enterprise value. Doing a deal is easy, implementing one is far more difficult. Risks and pitfalls are inherent in the integration process. That does not mean that many a botched deal—particularly...

September 4, 2018
Brutalities of the Buy-Side: Some Areas That Make Buy-Side M&A So Difficult

There is an oft-quoted (and perhaps apocryphal or fabricated) statistic that business acquisitions have the same failure rate as startups. A quick Google reference for me neither confirms nor denies. However, that general rule is that most acquisitions certainly do not yield the intended or pretended synergies the internal buy-side M&A peddlers initially promulgate. In...