I read with much interest a recent FT article on how the existing system lacks prudence and encourages wasteful M&A. https://www.ft.com/content/14d90d46-3ed0-11ea-a01a-bae547046735 The gist of the piece was around how the FASB has and is struggling to come to terms with the now $3.5tn that exists on US...
“OK, great, thanks for the meeting, everyone; it looks like we’re ‘green’ across the board for completing this deal next Tuesday. I just need to pop into the board meeting this afternoon and get the official rubber stamp, then we can tell the banks to...
Entry-Level Management Consultant MANAGEMENT CONSULTING – M&A INTEGRATION AND SEPARATION IMMEDIATE START Beyond the Deal (BTD) is a boutique management consultancy that provides M&A (merger and acquisition) integration and divestiture/separation support to mid-market clients around the world. We help our clients deliver deal value through designing, planning...
In clear weather, the pilot of a perfectly-functioning Embraer EMB-505 landed his light aircraft at excess speed with over 70% of the runway behind his touchdown point; the plane overran the runway and hit a number of parked cars, killing himself and his three passengers...
On 16 September 2019 Andrew Hill reported the toll that M&A was taking on staff in terms of disruption and anxiety. Though the article focuses on headlining deals, we believe that regardless of the deal size, employee engagement is one of the keys to realising...
BTD Founding Partner Carlos Keener has shared his tips on adding value to share price during M&A in Global Banking and Finance Review. See the article here and for further information, see his guide to managing share price during M&A. Click here to keep up to...
17/10/2018 LONDON: Beyond the Deal (BTD) a global M&A and integration advisory and services firm today announced it has once again partnered with Glatfelter (NYSE: GLT), a global supplier of specialty papers and engineered materials, to ensure the successful post-merger integration of Georgia-Pacific's European nonwovens...
Does M&A add value to publicly-listed organisations? This is, as the saying goes, the million dollar question, and the subject of endless surveys, academic studies and consulting reports over the years. A majority of these reports grossly oversimplifies the many factors and externalities impacting deal success. Others lazily confuse...
M&A remains by far the most popular way of businesses joining forces, despite the fact that more than half of M&As fail to reach their desired objectives. Indeed one Accenture report has noted that just 58% of all acquisitions added shareholder value 24 months past...
Take the M&A Readiness Test Everyone knows the usual statistics regarding long-term M&A performance – review the most recent set of statistics and you’ll find that, as a general rule, a third of all deals add value to the combined business, a third destroy value, and...