Jan 20, 2023 Dealmaking in 2023 – what really matters to PE leaders in the ‘age of disruption’ By Mark Veldon In a relatively short time, we’ve all become very accustomed to disruption. Since the middle of the last decade the world seems more...
Jan 20, 2023 Post-Merger Value Creation: Five imperatives for safeguarding shareholder value & overcoming the winner’s curse By Marco Golic Stefan Ohl Lennard Weghoeft Research shows that many mergers and acquisitions (M&A) fail, i.e., do not increase shareholder value. The main reason is that those...
Jan 18, 2023 Doing diligence right: How to protect and drive deal value in disrupted M&A markets By Brian Major Pilar Tarry Sean O'Flynn The deal-making boom of 2021, which drove both deal numbers and valuations to new highs, faced significant disruption in the latter half...
Nov 15, 2022 Creating shareholder value through M&A – and beyond By Matt Zmuda Reid Swanger Most acquisitions by public companies fail to create long-term value for their shareholders. However, a few companies have demonstrated...
Sep 23, 2022 Does the real value for investors lie beneath Italian football’s elite? By Filippo Guidotti Mori Italy’s Serie A, one of the so-called ‘Big 5’ European football leagues, has seen a steady flow of international investor interest over...
Aug 22, 2022 Mergers & acquisitions advisory in CP By Randy Chapman Value creation, transformation, and growth services across the consumer products industry.
May 23, 2022 The digital opportunity for value creation By Paul Kelly Mike Pitts Clive De Silva Angus Cologne-Brookes Swapnil Nigam +2 more... Show less As outlined in our previous article, there is a wide-range of digital value-creation opportunities available for Private Equity portfolio...
Mar 07, 2022 Industrials Quarterly M&A Review – Q4 2021 By Nick Wood 2021 has been solidified as a strong year for deal activity with 2,465 deals in Q4 ticking up 1% from Q3. This brings the full-year total...
Jan 13, 2022 What does it take to successfully implement a buy-and-build strategy? By Sean O'Flynn Buy-and-build is an enticing prospect for many PE investment partners. As an umbrella strategy for value creation, it brings together a...
Nov 03, 2021 Industrials Quarterly M&A Review Q3 2021 By Nick Wood Although M&A activity is slightly down in Q3 on Q1 and Q2, it remains firmly above pre-COVID levels. The fourth quarter is usually the...
Aug 11, 2021 Industrials Quarterly M&A Review Q2 2021 By Nick Wood By contrast with the second quarter of 2020, which saw deal activity in the global industrial sector at record lows as it felt the most...
Jul 27, 2021 WEBCAST: Financing a sustainable future in European football By Steve Braude Filippo Guidotti Mori Mark Veldon Like so many other industries, the business of football has been hugely disrupted by the pandemic. Games were postponed and when...
Jul 16, 2021 How optimising scouting networks can drive value creation in football clubs By Piero Masera Filippo Guidotti Mori European football’s club competitions are soon to resume, following the conclusion of this summer’s European Championships. Yet beneath...
Jul 05, 2021 Hybrid working – the new value creation lever for PE? By Sean O'Flynn Our extended experiment with homeworking has gone way beyond the month or so we all anticipated in the spring of 2020. While it’s thrown...
May 08, 2021 Industrial Quarterly M&A Review Q1 2021 By Nick Wood Global industrial M&A activity has made a strong recovery in the first quarter of 2021, after the significant impact on deal volumes at...
May 07, 2021 Value Creation Planning: It is still about Execution By AlixPartners The pre-sign diligence phase is a critical point in the deal process, which if used properly can generate significant value for the...