Do repositioning transactions outperform in a crisis?

By Ms. Jelena Guzenko & Ms. Eileen Kamerick & Mr. Gregg Albert

How a company allocates capital determines the value of the firm, and those that correctly respond to market shifts and uncertainty can find success where others fail.

This discussion, during the annual M&A Conference at Cornell Tech New York, includes recommendations from Jelena Guzenko (Siemens Energy), Eileen Kamerick (AIG Funds, Associated Bank, Legg Mason, Hochschild Mining) and Gregg Albert (Accenture).

 
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Integration and change management: Stand alone acquisitions

By Ms. Kiranmayi Adabala & Mr. Michael DeVita & Ms. Kristin Murphy

This session at the annual M&A Conference at the University of Chicago, which was held live online, looked at limited integration strategies and tactics for achieving governance for post-merger performance improvement.

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Tailored human capital diligence to identify operational risks

By Mr. Abdou Gueye & Mr. Dustin Intihar & Mr. Jeff Black

This session at the annual M&A Conference at the University of Chicago provided a detailed look at how effective dealmakers - Dustin Intihar (Lubrizol), Abdou Gueye (Zebra Technologies), and Jeff Black (Mercer) - are now approaching human capital due diligence.

The participants outlined a number of methods for identifying people-related operational challenges and looked at specific deal terms that may be employed to impact the future state operating environment including…

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M&A strategy and process shifts | M&A Summit

By William Jefferson Black

Throughout the Intralinks Virtual M&A Summit there was a consensus that the functioning of the financial markets makes this period different from the 2008-2009 economic decline.

Nonetheless, dealmakers are strained to evaluate M&A as the highest and best use of capital, if valuation declines make this an opportune time to approach targets, and whether to continue inflight deals.

A recommendation, that was echoed by many of the participants, was to consider more structured tools for...

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