Archive for December, 2009
Measuring M&A Deal Success
How do you measure M&A deal success? This has certainly been the focus of many studies, whether in academia or amongst practitioners. We’ve looked at it here on this blog (‘What is success in an M&A deal?‘) and also in our book (Intelligent M&A: Navigating the mergers and acquisitions minefield). It was thus with great [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )2010 M&A Forecast
It’s December and the M&A market is mostly closed for the year. This isn’t the month when many deals are done (although I would love to be surprised by a big announcement in the next several weeks, it would be a surprise!). We’ve discussed this recently here, where we showed that it is rare for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Where have all the M&A mega-deals gone?
I was asked the other day whether I thought that mega-deals have disappeared for a while, because not many have been announced recently. The commentary on M&A in the press is still focussed on the Kraft / Cadbury / Hershey / etc deal that was announced back in September (here’s the original press statement from [...]
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Worst Mergers or Acquisitions of all Time
Posted on Tuesday, 29 December 2009. Filed under: Business History, Commentary, Mergers |
With the year-end coming, there’s lots of talk about the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of not just the past year, but the first decade of the new millenium. Naturally, this talk then moves to which deal was THE worst in either 2009 or the period from 2000 to 2009. I’ve certainly discussed [...]
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