Stories about surviving M&A deals
How to tell if your company is being acquired?
Posted on 3 March 2010. Filed under: Articles on surviving an acquisition,Stories about surviving M&A deals,Tips & Suggestions |
Are you asking yourself the question ‘Is my company being acquired?’ Should you be? In earlier blogs here and also in the Surviving Mergers book, I have said that it is critical to take a number of steps BEFORE the acquisition takes place in order to better your chances of being retained by the new [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )What happens if you ARE fired or made redundant after a merger?
Posted on 6 November 2009. Filed under: Stories about surviving M&A deals,Tips & Suggestions |
Much of this website and blog is about how to reduce the chances of being made redundant if your company is acquired or merges. But as I’ve also noted both here in earlier blogs and in my book on surviving M&A, most mergers result in 10-15% of the employees and managers being fired, so there [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )In China, ‘Survival’ in M&A may mean just staying alive!
Posted on 29 July 2009. Filed under: Stories about surviving M&A deals |
A manager in China was killed by rioting employees when he gave them a speech telling them that they would be made redundant within three days following the acquisition of their company. The riots also left over 100 people injured. The full story is here from Management Today. As that article states, ‘And while we can’t [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )‘How to survive the maelstrom of a company merger’ (Financial Times)
Posted on 30 June 2009. Filed under: About the book / weblog,Articles on surviving an acquisition,Stories about surviving M&A deals,Tips & Suggestions |
In the Financial Times of 30 June 2009, columnist Stefan Stern wrote an article about how to survive a merger, having in hand an advance copy of my new book: Surving M&A: Making the Most of Your Company Being Acquired. Gratifying to see Stefan Stern’s suggestion that ”…we should be grateful that Scott Moeller…has picked this moment to publish a useful new [...]
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