Due Diligence Definitive Steps to Successful Business Combinations
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Biographical note
Denzil Rankine is Chief Executive of AMR International, a strategy boutique specialising in acquisition-related activity.
Acquisitions are one of the most powerful tools in the business armoury, but they can also be positively dangerous. Conducting thorough due diligence is one of the most effective ways to reduce the risk involved in acquisition and investment, and to improve the chances of success.
Due diligence is a term traditionally used for the review process applied to an acquisition. In recent times, the practice has evolved substantially and the level of detail and analysis now possible allows companies to take better development decisions.Well conducted due diligence can help a transaction to proceed smoothly, and can even enable companies to find ways of adding value to acquisitions and other partnerships.
Any transaction is highly risky ¿ at least 50% of acquisitions fail and numerous other partnerships end in disappointment and acrimony. Due diligence is the essential step to taking the risk out of deals and business partnerships. This book is a concise, comprehensive guide to the process, containing practical advice, accessible analysis, and case studies.
- Why do due diligence
- How to do due diligence
- When to do due diligence (with chronology)
- How it all joins up – project management
- Cross border analysis
- Role of the corporate – what to do in-house, when to use advisors
- Not just for acquisition
- It's a tool; it's a way of thinking
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- Technical focus
- ~ 5 case studies
- Specific cross-border complications
- HR section
- Checklist
- Technical focus
- ~ 5 case studies
- Specific cross-border complications
- To include tax and pension sections
- checklist
- Technical focus
- ~ 5 case studies
- Specific cross-border complications
- To include environment and pension sections
- Checklist
- How to cope with due diligence as a seller
- Disclose and help, or not
- Further analysis, and conclusion
- Acquisition is the most significant event in the history of a company, yet 50% of all acquisitions fail to meet expectations - some go disastrously wrong, leading to the failure of companies and the loss of jobs at all levels
- Due diligence is the review process for acquiring - a company needs to get this right to achieve a successful acquisition
- There is no definitive guide to this important process
- Written by top authors, who are involved in advising large companies on the subject on a daily basis
- Comprehensive - provides practical advice backed up by major case studies, and covers all the main areas of due diligence: financial, commercial and legal
Product details
Biographical note
Denzil Rankine is Chief Executive of AMR International, a strategy boutique specialising in acquisition-related activity.