David Boyd, Ben de Haldevang, Abhay Pande and Paul Siegenthaler from The Agile Gorilla collective discuss the world of mergers, acquisitions and integrations in 2023. We talk about the various impacts on acquisitions and integrations from AI (and OpenAI in particular), newly assertive regulators and changes in interest rates.
Read MoreBen de Haldevang, Abhay Pande and David Boyd and Paul Siegenthaler from The Agile Gorilla collective are joined by David Cox, a business transformation professional with a passion for Customer Experience. For over 15 years, David Cox has worked around Europe, South America and the Middle East helping clients drive revenue growth and customer loyalty.. We talk about who owns customer experience in an organisation, the challenge of keeping an external focus through an M&A deal, and the importance of metrics.
Read MoreClimate change and the decarbonisation of transportation and industry are having a profound impact on fossil fuel companies. Ben de Haldevang, Abhay Pande and David Boyd and Paul Siegenthaler from The Agile Gorilla collective talk about how this affects M&A both in terms of strategic thinking and the successful delivery of deals.
Read MoreThe merger of Essilor and Luxottica in 2018 was the combination of French and Italian champions in lenses and frames. Ben de Haldevang, Abhay Pande, David Boyd and Paul Siegenthaler from The Agile Gorilla collective talk about the merger, evaluate success given hindsight, and how the Italian-side Leonardo Del Vecchio prevailed in a fight for control.
Read MoreText books on M&A tend to be dry and, in our view, a little ‘out of date’. Ben de Haldevang, Abhay Pande and David Boyd from The Agile Gorilla collective talk about the books they would recommend to a CEO undertaking his/her first deal. What book(s) would you give them to read this summer on the beach?….
Read MoreThe merger of law firms Allen & Overy from the UK and Shearman & Sterling from the US in a $3.4bn deal will not be easy to complete or deliver. Ben de Haldevang, Abhay Pande, David Boyd and Paul Siegenthaler from The Agile Gorilla collective talk about the challenges of merging professional services firms, especially those with a large number of partners. We talk about what the benefits of the deal look like, and how to achieve them.
Read MoreFollowing a rare acquisition of a Mittelstand company by a foreign buyer, Ben de Haldevang, Abhay Pande, David Boyd and Paul Siegenthaler from The Agile Gorilla collective talk about the “Mittelstand” grouping of companies in Germany. How they differ in leadership and governance from typical companies in the Western hemisphere, and what that means for M&A.
Read MoreBen de Haldevang, Abhay Pande and Paul Siegenthaler from The Agile Gorilla collective, talk about the wave of mergers hitting the banking sector, and how we have learned or evolved from previous banking crashes.
Read MoreBen de Haldevang, Abhay Pande and David Boyd from The Agile Gorilla collective, talk about the challenges of integrating two firms long after the acquisition has completed. In the news recently has been Google’s integration of the DeepMind acquisition into their internal “Google Brain” team. The team ask what are the challenges, and how do you deal with them?
Read MoreBen de Haldevang, Abhay Pande, Paul Siegenthaler and David Boyd from The Agile Gorilla collective, talk about the separation of Worldpay from FIS (so soon after the acquisition), and the latest news from the EY separation.
Read MoreBen de Haldevang, Abhay Pande and David Boyd from The Agile Gorilla collective, talk about the continued growth of Broadcom through acquisition and where that might lead.
Read MoreBen de Haldevang, Abhay Pande, Paul Siegenthaler and David Boyd from The Agile Gorilla collective, talk about the separation of EY’s global consulting business and what it means for partners, staff and the wider industry.
Read MoreAbhay Pande and David Boyd from the collective behind The Agile Gorilla, talks to us about how integration is more or less relevant in M&A depending on the type of deal. There’s a type of deal where Abhay likes to call integration ‘semantic diplomacy’… you just want the assets not the people, and the acquirer uses the semantics of integration to be diplomatic to the people no longer needed.
Read MoreDavid Bryant, Ben de Haldevang and Abhay Pande from the collective behind The Agile Gorilla, talks to us about how all the M&A deals he’s worked on over the last two decades have been ‘emergent strategies’.
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