Masterminding the Deal - 9780749476090

Masterminding the DealBreakthroughs in M Strategy and Analysis\nAuthor(s): Peter Clark, Roger Mills\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Kogan Page Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Kogan Page Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780749476090, 978-0749476090\nSynopsis\nFollowing a quiet period in global M 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?\n\nMasterminding 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 boo.