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Convergence
Over at The Enterprise, there is an interesting report on the recent Alliance of Mergers & Acquisition Advisors Summer Conference. It brings into convergence two categories of interest here at the...
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IT Due Diligence: Human Factors
A key task during IT Due Diligence is assessing the strength of the IT leadership team. Martha Heller, in her recent article in CIO, defines the SVP of Technology and Operations as a cool new role and...
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Platform Company Integration Pitfalls
Cookie-cutter approaches to integrating platform companies are a surefire way to limit your abilities to achieve acquisition goals. There are many ways to do it wrong, and no single, one-size-fits-all...
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Reducing IT Costs for New Acquisitions
Over at CIO magazine, Bernard Golden recently published an update on Cloud Computing. In his list of the types of companies that can benefit substantially from computing in the cloud, he left off one...
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Is this the end of M&A as we know it?
http://ia300130.us.archive.org/1/items/EDIS-SRP-0197-06/EDIS-SRP-0197-06.mp3 Part of me says, “Oh please, let’s hope so!” — for more than a decade we’ve heard constant complaints about deals that...
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Designed to Sell, Corporate Edition
When contemplating which business units or product lines to put up for sale in today’s challenging market, it might be wise to borrow some tactics from the real estate market. It really comes down to...
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“The Trouble with the Future…
…Is that it arrives before we are ready for it.” A bit of plainspoken wisdom from American humorist Arnold H. Glasow. Thanks to the miracle of google, it becomes our intro quote for today’s topic of...
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Some interesting M&A Stats
I just took a look at a news item that arrived in my daily PEHub Wire news roundup: Gotham Consulting Partners’ private equity survey on value creation. While I’ve only had time for a quick read,...
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Carving out a new company, aka “Just Add Water”
Earlier this month, our Google Alerts picked up a press release praising our role in a recent carve-out project. It was a nice surprise for us, and has generated some inquiries about our role. In this...
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Time to Remodel the Kitchen?
Although determining full and realistic corporate valuation is a task I’ll leave to people of sterner stuff than I (since Facebook went public, not many could begin to speculate on the bigger picture...
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