Archive for September, 2009
What to do first if your company’s being acquired?
You wake up one morning and you read that your company is being acquired. Aside from the shock of hearing this, your first thought (other than ‘OMG!’ and ‘Is this a dream or am I really awake already?) usually is: ‘What should I do if my company’s being acquired?’ That IS the right question. What [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )This wave of M&A deals: Who will be made redundant now?
Strategic acquisitions are once again headline news with the announcement of a number of massive deals on both sides of the Atlantic (see the blog entry in a sister website: ‘Has the M&A market returned? Green shoots turn into harvest time…’). Wait a few weeks or months, and the headlines will talk more about the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book Review: ‘Surviving Mergers’ from The Times, 2 September 2009
There was an excellent summary and review by Emily Ford of the Surviving Mergers: Make the most of your company being acquired book in the 2 September 2009 issue of The Times and also available on-line here. She entitled her review ‘In a merger, survival can depend on you’, which is certainly true, yet often [...]
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