Masterminding the Deal: Breakthroughs in M&A Strategy and Analysis

Following a quiet period in global M&A activity, a new boom seems to be underway, but in an age where two-thirds of all merger deals can be said to fail (where deals fall short of the minimum required financial returns to the acquiring company), how can future success be guaranteed? And what can acquirers, and their shareholders and advisers, do to improve the chances of success? Masterminding the Deal looks at performance in two critical areas - merger segmentation (the identification of critical characteristics and attributes separating more successful mergers from the rest) and category-specific synergy diagnosis (the differentiation of synergy benefits - expenses, revenues, tax - to ensure maximum rewards). Through this in-depth analysis, the book provides the managers and advisers of acquiring firms with concise and actionable frameworks to improve and enhance merger performance. Masterminding the Deal will help you to identify and apply the key components of merger success.

Author: Peter Clark, Roger Mills
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 01/27/2015
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780749476090

About the Author

Peter J Clark is a management consultant and company advisor with his own international firm. He is also Senior Teaching Fellow at University College London with the Department of Management Science and Innovation, where he teaches finance and M&A. Peter has more than 20 years' experience in M&A including target search, bid-sale advisory and merger divestiture strategy, involving more than $3bn in transactions. One of his previous books, Beyond the Deal, received mention as a book of the month by the Wall Street Journal.

Rogers W Mills is an advisor to companies, banks, investors and sovereign-focused organizations. He has significant expertise in financial strategy, mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, IPOs and related areas of corporate value improvement. He is Emeritus Professor of Finance and Accounting at Henley Business School, University of Reading, and most recently was Professor of Fundamental Analysis and Business Valuation at the VU University in Amsterdam.