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An essential read about M&A for executives and investors who make critical decisions when M&A events and opportunities happen.
In The M&A Failure Trap: Why Most Mergers and Acquisitions Fail and How the Few Succeed, a distinguished team of finance and accounting researchers and practitioners delivers a practical and…
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There is plenty of market lore about what influences a corporate acquisition’s probability of success. It took the authors of this book to produce a thorough, empirically supported answer to that question. Using a database of 40,000 transactions over a 40-year period, Lev and Gu identify a total of 43 factors that make an acquisition more likely to succeed or to fail. They provide a ten-factor model that is practical for investors to apply in assessing a given deal’s odds of beating the overall observed failure rate of 70%-75%. (That is twice the failure rate of internal projects reported by…
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