In today’s M&A market, dealmakers are increasingly under pressure – resulting from increased disruption, industry convergence, technological change and the need to shift to new business models to stay competitive – to maximize and deliver value from each deal they

In recent years, we have seen more acquisitions of start-ups by big corporations in the tech industry, healthcare, retail, fashion, beauty, food, and transportation. The benefits of M&A transactions in these sectors has been more widely recognized. For instance, for

Recent discussions on M&A deal activity debate whether mergers and acquisitions fail to meet financial projections or return on shareholder value. Most often, failures are chalked up to ‘cultural clashes’, implying that the two merging entities ‘just don’t fit’. Given