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My Personal

Perspective on Mergers
and Acquisitions
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• How do you teach
Mergers and Acquisitions?
• Answer: from experience
• No short cut to
understanding a complex
ecosystem and process
• 30 years Investment
Banking Experience
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Business Cycle
• Entrepreneurs create
businesses
• Need to grow
• Growth needs capital and
sometimes acquisitions
• Need Exit in some form,
partial or complete, to
realise value for themselves
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Start with Company Life Cycle
• Startup
• Product
• Customer
• Market
• Growth
• Scale
• Exit
• Sale
• IPO
• Buyout
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions

• Key Steps
• Strategy Advice
• Raising Capital
• Making Acquisitions
• Sale/Exit/IPO
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Market Players
• Companies
• Investment Banks
• Accounting and Audit
• Lawyers
• Consulting Firms
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions

• Sector Focus
• Sub Sectors
• Trends
• What is Hot?
• Valuations
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Sector Focus
• Understand the Landscape/Business Ecosystem
• Market Leaders
• Growth Companies
• Disrupters
• Ownership
• Public
• Private
• VC/PE
• Strategies
• Acquirers/Consolidators
• Growth
• Targets
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Sector Deal History
• Who is doing what do
whom?
• Who is funding it?
• National
• Cross Border/
International
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• As an Adviser, Key Question?
• Why should they hire you?
• The IBM Issue - No one ever got fired
for buying from IBM
• Track Record
• Deals
• Expertise
• Ability to Originate Deals
• How are you paid: Retainer/Success/
Stages?
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Identifying Potential Clients
• Buyers
• Sellers
• Financial Investors
• Who is doing deals?
• Who has the money to do deals?
• Who are the key decision
makers?
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions

• Process
• Buyside or Sellside
• Pitching
• Terms of Client
Engagement
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Buyside
• Sector Review
• Target Identification
• Availability and Approach
• Initial Discussions
• Valuation
• Negotiations
• Letter of Intent
• Due Diligence
• Closing
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Sellside
• Pitch/Engagment
• Valuation/Key Exit Conditions
• Potential Acquirers/Strategy/Rationale
• Preparation of Data Room
• Marketing
• Rifle shot
• Auction
• Negotiation
• Offers Received
• Heads of Terms Agreed
• Due Diligence
• Closing
My Personal Perspective on Mergers and
Acquisitions
• Skills
• Networks and Relationships
• Track Record and Integrity
• Pitching and Selling
• Marketing
• Documentation
• Organisation and Management
• Negotiation and Closing
My Personal
Perspective on Mergers
and Acquisitions

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