Ep 23 - Mergers and acquisitions

If you get to the end of your career and you’ve never worked for a firm that has either acquired or been acquired you will very much be the exception. 

This week, on the Little Questions Podcast we're talking mergers and acquisitions, or M&A as its often shortened to.

M&A can be a great way to improve efficiencies, accelerate growth and create value. But when they fail to produce the desired result, a common factor is poor communication, including a lack of information during the pre-merger period and a lack of post-merger cooperation and coordination.

And that has to be an opportunity for the Corporate Affairs team.

How do you approach and plan for such events? How do you ensure you are the one helping define the story to be told? What about stakeholder prioritisation, especially when those you want to tell first may not be the same as those you have to?  How do you best work with other parts of the firm, and counter parties, and of course the sometimes vast array of expensively assembled advisors – lawyers and bankers especially?  And, in what can be long and complex processes, draining at times, how do you maintain morale and stay sane?

We’d love to hear what you think. Get in touch on social media or email podcast@apellaadvisors.com

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