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Building an Integration Leadership Team that Actually Delivers
Successful integrations are built by a compact, empowered leadership team and a post merger integration leader who turns deal theses into outcomes. This guide covers roles, skills, governance, benefits tracking, and practical hiring tactics you can use tomorrow. What is the one decision right you would change to speed up your current integration?
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Serial Acquirers 101, Sony Edition: A Global Buyer With An Eye For Entertainment, Chips, And Fans
Sony has spent decades using acquisitions and divestitures to turn an electronics icon into a global entertainment and technology portfolio, from Columbia Pictures and EMI to Crunchyroll and Bungie. Recent buys like Audeze and iSIZE show Sony investing in audio and streaming quality, while Alamo Drafthouse expands experiences beyond the living room. Which asset class…
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The Value of Regulatory Compliance Planning in Cross Border Deals
Cross border deals thrive on a disciplined regulatory compliance plan that turns risk into a practical workflow and ties pre closing approvals to post closing commitments. This article breaks down the steps pitfalls lessons learned and governance tactics that keep timelines intact and value creation on track. What is the one regulatory planning habit that…
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The Ten M&A Deals That Lit The Antitrust Fuse
From AT&T Time Warner to Nvidia Arm and Illumina Grail, this deep dive explains the ten blockbuster M&A deals that lit the antitrust fuse, what regulators saw, and how the battles ended. You will get the basics, the global context, and practical lessons on remedies, innovation, and gatekeeping risks, plus a visual of deal sizes…
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Berkshire Hathaway as a Serial Acquirer. How the Omaha super‑conglomerate buys, integrates, and sometimes sells
Berkshire Hathaway has quietly mastered serial acquisition by buying durable businesses with cash then giving managers autonomy instead of integrating them into a central bureaucracy. From BNSF to Alleghany to Pilot the method is simple. Select. Fund. Hold. The future likely features more large simple targets in insurance infrastructure and industrials powered by a fortress…
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Navigating M&A in Highly Regulated Industries: Why It’s Harder Than You Think
M&A in banking and healthcare isn’t just complex, it’s a regulatory obstacle course. From strategy to integration, every phase comes with unique challenges that demand specialized expertise. How do you navigate these hurdles without losing value, or your sanity? What’s the toughest regulatory challenge you’ve faced during an M&A deal, and how did you overcome…
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The Value of Knowledge Transfer in Carve-Out Transactions
Carve-outs succeed when knowledge transfer is treated as a core workstream, not a footnote. This guide offers a practical framework, tools, and tips to capture, deliver, embed, and validate the know how that keeps operations running. What is your best technique for making knowledge transfer stick during a carve-out, and what impact did it have…
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The Top 10 Most Controversial M&A Deals and What Happened Next
From AOL–Time Warner to Microsoft–Activision Blizzard, we break down ten of the most controversial M&A deals and what really happened after the headlines faded. You will see recurring patterns in antitrust, national security, culture, accounting, and data privacy and learn how practitioners can avoid the biggest pitfalls. Which deal taught you the most surprising lesson…
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The Digital Deal: How Transformation Is Rewriting M&A Strategy
Digital is reshaping M&A from thesis to integration with new risks, new levers, and a fresh playbook for value creation. This article maps the impact across strategy, screening, diligence, valuation, and integration with practical checklists and tips for deal teams. What digital practice has made the biggest difference in your post close value capture?
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Serial Acquirers 101 and Beyond: SoftBank Group’s Bold Buy, Build, and Sometimes Bye Strategy
SoftBank Group’s evolution from telecom investor to AI infrastructure orchestrator is a masterclass in serial acquisitions, timely divestitures, and inventive financing. From Sprint and Arm to the planned “Stargate” data center buildout, SoftBank is recycling legacy wins into chips, compute, and applications that will power the AI economy. Do you think its next big move…
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The Top 10 Most Innovative Legal Strategies Used In M&A Litigation
In M&A, the real action often starts after the term sheet and sometimes after the closing. Here are ten innovative, casetested strategies from Delaware’s front lines that can swing outcomes in MAE fights, appraisal wars, earnout battles, and cleansing skirmishes. Which tactic would most change how you structure your next deal?
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What Is The Value Of Leadership Alignment Workshops Before Day One?
Before Day One, leadership alignment workshops turn deal hype into an executable plan with clear decision rights, a unified operating model, and a credible communications cascade. The result is faster decisions, fewer reversals, and a team that models the behaviors the rest of the organization will follow. What is the one move you have seen…
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