We’ve all read the statistics on acquisition failure. We’ve seen shareholders’ cynicism reflected on both sides of the deal e.g. Dell’s acquisition of EMC has prompted shares of VMware Inc., the company 80%-owned by EMC, to drop nearly...
The M&A market is hot again with around $1 trillion of deals announced already this year. That would put us on track for the second highest year in history behind 2007 (recent WSJ article). The article summarized why acquisitions are so compelling for US...