Mergers & Acquisitions

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Global Executive Specializing in Mergers & Acquisitions


Mike.Gendron@MichaelGendron.com                                                  (513)659-0098 (USA)


Mergers & Acquisitions are often high-risk ventures.  Some studies indicate that more than two-thirds of the mergers completed fail to create value for the acquiring company.   Primary reasons range from poor integration planning, to improper strategy, to overpaying.  This website is dedicated to planning and acquisition assessment through Due Diligence - two of the three points of failure.


The Blog is an instructional Blog discussing specific procedures that may be used to improve M&A success.  The entire website is based on M&A work completed over the years... battle proven.

 

Michael P. Gendron has more than 30 years experience including CFO of both public & private companies (...“Business Week Hottest Growth Companies in America” to $1+ billion global corporations.  Mr. Gendron has specialized in Mergers & Acquisitions around the world.  He is the author of the following books which outline practical methods to unlock shareholder value:


  1. Bullet  Doing the M&A Deal: A Quick Access Field Manual & Guide

  2. Bullet  Integrating Newly Merged Organizations.

  3. Bullet  Creating the New E-Business Company.

  4. Bullet A Practical Approach to International  Operations.

Now available on Amazon.

What else is in this site?  ...checklists, plan templates, guides to get results...


  1. Bullet Process workflow - Summary of objectives for each element of deal ... Due Diligence, Day One, 1st 100 Days etc.

  2. Bullet Blog - Bi-weekly instructions on various activities in the deal ... Due Diligence: People....

  3. Bullet M&A Strategy - High level strategy objectives, key deliverables and project plan

  4. Bullet PreSale Tune-up - A project plan template to self-assess your business including checkpoints, deliverables and timetable

  5. Bullet Due Diligence - A project template to assist executives in planning/executing effective Due Diligence

  6. Bullet Post Deal Activity - A project template to assist executives in planning/executing Day One, First 100 Days, 2nd Hundred days after

 

ARTICLES OF INTEREST

“Bidding Wars, Scrapped Holidays Herald M&A Pickup”  http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/08/31/business/business-us-dealtalk-augustdealflow.html?dbk



“Cheap Tech Valuations Put IPO’s on Hold-Spur M&A”  http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2710711320100829?dbk



“Are Mergers Back?  Well Sort of.”  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/business/24sorkin.html?_r=1&ref=business


“Manufacturing M&A on The Rise”  http://www.themiddlemarket.com/news/manufacturing-deals-investment-banks-private-equity-209733-1.html?ET=mergersunleashed:e6594:225535a:&st=email


“Recent M&A Deals Bode Well for Second Semester”  http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/080210dnbusmergers.26b97ef.html?dbk


“A Rise in M&A Activity Seen in the Near Future”  http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/a-rise-in-m-a-activity-is-seen-in-the-near-future/


“On Wall Street, So Much Cash, So Little Time”  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/business/24private.html?ref=business


“Buyout Firms Face Investors or Risk Being Frozen Out”   http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65G3MQ20100617?dbk


“Private Equity’s Peculiar Plight: So Much Capital, So Little Credit”  http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/537047/201006110011/Private-Equitys-Peculiar-Plight-So-Much-Capital-So-Little-Credit.aspx


“In Deal-Making, Flat is the New Up”  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/business/14views.html?dbk


“The Contractual Structure of Private Equity”  http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/the-contractual-structure-of-private-equity/


Microsoft CFO Sees Upturn in Tech Mergers”   http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/05/14/business/business-us-summit-microsoft.html?_r=1&dbk


“Mega Buyouts Could Return”http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6421X020100503?feedType=RSS&feedName=innovationNews


“Don’t Become Irreplaceable”  http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1971190_1971191_1977222,00.html


“Mergers & Acquisitions to Pick up This Year”  http://www.kiplinger.com/businessresource/forecast/archive/mergers-and-acquisitions-to-pick-up-this-year.html


“Hedge Fund Assets to Hit $2 Trillion by Year End...”  http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-06/hedge-fund-assets-to-hit-2-trillion-by-year-end-survey-says.html?dbk


“Tech M&A ShowsSigns of Rebounding”  http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/tech-m-a-shows-more-signs-of-rebounding/?ref=business

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