The Deal Paradox: Mergers and Acquisitions Success in the Age of Digital Transformation
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The Deal Paradox explores what successful dealmaking looks like in the age of digital transformation, drawing on interviews with top dealmakers and M&A experts sharing their stories, triumphs, and challenges.
Taking a dynamic storytelling approach, The Deal Paradoxnavigates the transition from traditional and ingrained methods to new techniques, showing how AI, big data, and machine learning can be used to generate new opportunities and enable diversity. It walks through the attributes and skills needed in this new landscape and how M&A professionals can build them into their approach, from finding and executing deals to making sure they deliver the desired outcomes.
The Deal Paradox draws on 60 years’ combined experience of cutting-edge deal making, built on landmark deals ranging from Morgan Stanley’s IPO at the height of the 1980s banking boom and Kraft’s takeover of Cadbury to key tech deals including the £1bn sale of financial data intelligence company Acuris to ION. Chapters are richly illustrated throughout with real-world examples featuring organizations such as Apple, Google, BP and SoftBank Vision Fund.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (3 Feb. 2023), Kogan page |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 216 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1398608114 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1398608115 |
| Dimensions | 15.7 x 1.2 x 23.3 cm |
by khmarks
An insightful and thought-provoking read for those involved in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as in the world of corporate finance. As deals have become part of the DNA of business strategy, so has the use of technology in advancing and accelerating the execution of the right transactions. Through the lens of experience, the authors use interviews and stories with leading dealmakers to highlight the impact of technology on today’s deal market, and to forecast the likely implications of digital transformation to the M&A process. Whether an experienced investment banker or early career analyst, you need to read The Deal Paradox.