Buy Cheap: buy an asset because it is cheap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nTo ensure that your deal is successful, you should assess the risk factors to understand potential problem areas. If you are engaging in a riskier M&A strategy, you can significantly reduce the risks through an effective deal strategy, including utilizing a Deal Manager with experience in these deals and focusing on value creation throughout the deal process. You can never remove the risk from M&A, but you can achieve success if you understand the risks and diligently mitigate these risks.<\/p>\n
1 See McKinsey article for their analysis of different M&A strategies. The five types of successful acquisitions, July 2010 | by Marc Goedhart, Tim Koller, and David Wessels.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some M&A strategies involve more risk than others. The biggest risk factor is the disruptive change required in your core business. For example, if you are trying to consolidate an industry through multiple acquisitions, then significant risk exists in the integration process. On the other hand, the classic private equity \u201cfinancial engineering\u201d is less risky. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[87,97,98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisbachgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}