Post-Merger Integration Webinars

Top 10 Ways to Protect Your Career in a Merger

Top 10 Ways to Protect Your Career in a Merger

Free

Joe Aberger, EVP of PRITCHETT, LP, reveals guidelines that will help employees:

  • Lower their anxiety level
  • Improve their employability
  • Protect their personal brands
What's the #1 Cause of Merger Failure?

What is the #1 Cause of Merger Failure?

Who should be blamed when an acquisition wipes out hundreds of millions of dollars of market cap? The most frequently cited villain is “cultural incompatibility.” Joe Aberger, EVP of PRITCHETT, LP, explains that “while culture incompatibility is a plausible suspect for merger failures, it shouldn't automatically be the primary one.” Too often, it takes most of the blame while the real culprit gets off scot-free.

The webinar reveals:

  • Why culture incompatibility makes a good scapegoat 
  • What failed marriages have in common with failed mergers 
  • How cultural diversity can be an asset, not a liability 
  • What successful deal makers do when major integration problems are anticipated 
  • How high premiums increase the likelihood of large shareholder losses
  • Why most companies do not hire outside consultants to conduct cultural due diligence
Hard Proof M&A Gets a Bum Rap

Hard Proof M&A Gets a Bum Rap

Joe Aberger, EVP of PRITCHETT, LP, debunks the commonly held belief that M&A is a loser’s game. He exposes the many flaws in negatively skewed research and provides an accurate, objective view on the true performance of mergers.

M&A Gets a Bum Rap, reveals:

  1. How a minority of buyers generate the majority of M&A losses
  2. Who has created the myth that most mergers fail
  3. What five characteristics are shared by buyers that incur titanic post-merger losses
  4. When acquirers typically make the best and worst deals
  5. Why post-merger losses are often due to the very problems executives anticipated rather than the acquisitions themselves
  6. Why “glamour acquirers” tend to perform poorly after their deals
  7. How a merger can fail on paper, but not actually be a failure
  8. Why extreme positive or extreme negative M&A research results are not credible
  9. Why blanket assertions about M&A failure rates are not based on sound logic
  10. How the AOL/Time Warner merger, widely regarded as one of the worst mergers in history, actually benefited AOL shareholders