10 Apr, 2024 Why M&A practitioners need to pay attention to what Microsoft, Oracle and SAP have planned with ERP By Samuel Chandrasekaran Nick Neil-Boss M&A practitioners need to pay attention to recent evolutions in ERP product strategy by Microsoft, SAP and Oracle that are set out in the...
16 May, 2023 Consumer Deals in 2023: Delivering value through consumer M&A in challenging market conditions By Nick Breadner Consumers across the globe are facing a now well-established cost-of-living crisis – where high inflation, coupled with increasing...
25 Apr, 2023 Buy-and-Build Integration: How to deliver a buy-and-build programme which maximises value By Nick Breadner Buy-and-Build Integration strategies are nothing new, though the rate at which they are utilised in M&A value creation is increasing....
10 Oct, 2022 Buy-and-Build Integration: How to deliver a buy-and-build programme which maximises value By Nick Breadner Buy-and-Build Integration strategies are nothing new, though the rate at which they are utilised in M&A value creation is increasing....
10 Jul, 2022 8 New Views #8: Do Not Copy-Paste Processes In A Carve-Out By Curt Luchtenberg “Split the company, duplicate the processes and be done with it” is a mantra heard often in the deal context. This saves time and money –...
06 Jul, 2022 8 New Views #7: In A Carve-Out, Assets Do Not Have To Be Duplicated By Curt Luchtenberg #splitting up #assets in a #carveout can be a nightmare, especially when not only administrative, but also #productionassets are in...
03 Jul, 2022 8 New Views #6: IT Separation Does Not Have To Be Ready At Closing By Curt Luchtenberg Being the most complex #workstream, #IT usually is the #1 candidate for becoming the critical path of a #carveout project. I have seen...
29 Jun, 2022 8 New Views #5: Carve-Outs Can Be Implemented In Less Than 9 Months By Curt Luchtenberg #Separations are complex animals being “live” entities with many #interdependencies. Thus #carveouts are seldomly closed in less than...
26 Jun, 2022 8 New Views #4: Carve-Outs Do Require Strategic Thinking and Acting By Curt Luchtenberg International consultancies often distinguish between a strategic and an operational part of a carve-out. Mostly, these parts are...
22 Jun, 2022 Michael Horwat joins Swiss team of Eight Advisory as a partner By Marta Marczak Pan-European consultancy Eight Advisory has strengthened its team in Switzerland with Michael Horwat.
22 Jun, 2022 8 New Views #3: Employees Should Love Carve-Outs By Curt Luchtenberg Carve-outs have a bad reputation among employees, playing into the fears of degradation, loss of corporate identity and in the worst...
19 Jun, 2022 8 New Views: #2: Carve-Outs Don’t Have To Cause Dyssynergies By Curt Luchtenberg When I arrived on site to support a carve-out, quite some of my clients said: "Dyssynergies are a given." and "Cutting all ties to the...
15 Jun, 2022 "8 New Views on Carve-Outs": #1: The future of a carve-out entity does matter to the seller By Curt Luchtenberg After a carve-out, the first reaction of the former ParentCo is often to go back to business as usual and discard any thought about the...