M&A challenges are one of the top 10 concerns for directors in 2008.
Although M&A activity may experience a period of decline relative to recent years, it most certainly will continue to play a prominent role in the lives of many companies in 2008 and beyond.
With the uncertainty of the market as a backdrop, we gathered a group of top legal, advisory, and financial experts to discuss the outlook for M&A activity in the financial services, consumer business, utilities and energy, and technology sectors.
Corporate Board Member's CEO interviews boardroom movers and shakers. Rick Lacher, managing director, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, discusses the board's role in M&A transactions and offers useful advice to improve performance in the boardroom.
This study, conducted by KPMG and University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, analyzes the factors that have recently been correlated with deal success. While some of these factors, such as how deals are financed, may have been examined before, others, such as how deal rationale may affect
success, are relatively unexamined.
Experts focusing on the broad financial services; technology, media, and telecom; utilities and energy; and consumer business sectors discuss trends influencing the ebb and flow of deal and dollar volume in 2007.
In today’s active M&A environment, the pressure from the potential buyer to move quickly in these situations can be significant; however, the board must remain mindful of the enhanced scrutiny of its actions and decisions once it determines that the company is for sale.
Our legal, financial, and advisory experts discuss the promising outlook for the diverse health care and life sciences sector in the coming year.
During mergers and acquisitions, boards often neglect one of the greatest sources of value in many M&A transactions: the talent of the management team in the target company.
Corporate Board Member presents commentary on the issues that are shaping the broad energy and utilities sector, from experts representing Deloitte & Touche LLP, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.
Corporate Board Member is pleased to present commentary on strategic, legal, and market trends surrounding financial services M&A from three leading experts: Deloitte Tax LLP, Bingham McCutchen LLP, and Duff & Phelps LLC.
Michael W. Kane, Ph.D., J.D., President & CEO of Kane & Company, Inc., explains how directors can take full advantage of a financial opinion when evaluating a transaction.
For many years, boards of directors of United States public corporations have engaged in planning in anticipation of potential contests for control of the corporation or over its strategic direction whether through hostile tender offer, on-market accumulation of shares or proxy contest. The world has changed.
Our legal, financial, and advisory experts disucss the promising outlook for M&A in the middle market as strategic and economic conditions align for the new year.
