- Motivates M&A and deals professionals to re-examine their approaches and the skills and capabilities needed to identify and deliver successful deals in a rapidly changing market and technological landscape
Structured to reflect the dealmaking process, from setting out the strategy and identifying the right target through to integrating businesses after the deal has been done, delivering a roadmap for future deals success
Discusses the role of technology, AI, big data, and machine learning in opening new opportunities and enabling greater diversity in deals and the people involved
- Richly seeded with insights and interviews from top dealmakers sharing stories of successes and challenges and real-life examples featuring organizations such as Apple, Google, S&P Global and SoftBank Vision.
Draws on impressive industry experience: combined, Anna Faelten, Michel Driessen and Scott Moeller have clocked up more than 60 years' experience of cutting edge deal making.
The Deal Paradox
Mergers and Acquisitions Success in the Age of Digital Transformation
Deliver successful corporate deals and M&As in the age of digital transformation with inspiring examples, takeaways and insights from top dealmakers.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9781398608115
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 233x157
216 pages
About the book
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 Paradox navigates 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.
About the authors
Michel Driessen is a Senior Partner in EY's Strategy and Transactions group. He has previously held senior executive positions at Accenture, Visa and Rabobank. He has worked on and led over 100 multi-billion-pound transactions with the world's largest corporations and private equity firms. He is an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School in London.
Anna Faelten, PhD, is an experienced corporate finance Partner at EY. She leads EY's Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) Corporate Finance practice. She has a wealth of corporate finance and consulting experience, spanning public to private sector, private equity-backed, founder owned and corporate buy-side and sell-side transactions.
Scott Moeller is a Professor in the Practice of Finance at the Bayes Business School in London, UK, and is the founder and Director of the M&A Research Centre. He teaches 'Mergers & Acquisitions' in the MBA and MSc programmes. He has had a highly successful banking career with Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan, holding a number of senior management roles.
In a world where rapid technology development and adoption are forcing the pace of change, this book reminds us that human values and relationships are the foundation of all successful business dealings.
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