The gold standard in deal-making. If you are in the business of doing deals or supporting deals from whatever side, you know what is on the plate. Conducing a merger or an acquisition is something big. Conducing a merger or an acquisition requires strategic foresight and may take a lot of the capacities from the best people of your M&A or strategy team. Because a deal requires lots of attention and focus. There are one billion things that can go wrong when doing a deal during the target selection process, during the due diligence, during the signing process, during and after the operational execution.
But there is also plenty of upside potential for businesses doing deals. After all, M&A is a key growth driver for most companies. Here come the best six tips you will ever hear to make better deals, adapted from a course by Ashridge Business School, London.