Background: A UK listed engineering business brought BTD to help them acquire a global computer analytics business put up for sale by the parent firm. The buyer saw a unique opportunity to complement cutting-edge computer analytics with their current business offerings. Unlike previous acquisitions the buyer had...
From 1 September 2020, Lance Raley has become a Director at Beyond the Deal (BTD). Lance is a senior executive who brings over 20 years' experience in organisational transformation, turnaround, development, and top-line improvement in both international and growth-phase companies in the energy, manufacturing and...
Here are our key takeaways from the webinar which took place on Wednesday 22nd April. Leadership strategies in times of crisis will be different than “business as usual": Creating a broader network of teams to allow decisions to be made at different levels of the organisation...
Note: This is part of a series of posts about driving transformation through Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A). Here's my first post. This summarises the M&A challenge and the ten recommendations I have for success. Some 20 years ago I had the good fortune to study Existentialism...
So, the big question is now becoming, “Will the worldwide economic disruption caused by Covid-19 impact your M&A plans for 2020?” The short, easy answer is probably ‘yes’, at least in terms of how you consider the deals you make. While some (e.g. Financial Times,...
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...
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...
Why is that M&A success rates continue to hover around or below the 50% mark year on year? What distinguishes those companies with a track record of M&A success? It's a quest of mine to get to the very heart of M&A; understanding what makes some...
Another year, another excellent gathering of career professionals in acquisition and integration: The 8th TLG M&A and Integration Management Forum held in Amsterdam on 17-18 March was rated by participants as the best one yet. Over 50 participants from global corporate and mid-market organsiations gathered...