In recent weeks Rob and Toby have veered slightly off the M&A topic to explore the emerging world of AI and how it might shake up M&A as we know it. In doing that we've arrived at the challenges of adopting adequate regulatory and ethical controls for AI and never mind the slow cumbersome legal system and how that might cope with AI.The key point is that AI needs global standards for regulation, ethics and legal controls and anyone with a degree of experience knows how difficult...
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In recent weeks Rob and Toby have veered slightly off the M&A topic to explore the emerging world of AI and how it might shake up M&A as we know it. In doing that we've arrived at the challenges of adopting adequate regulatory and ethical controls for AI and never mind the slow cumbersome legal system and how that might cope with AI.The key point is that AI needs global standards for regulation, ethics and legal controls and anyone with a degree of experience knows how difficult...
SHOULD YOU INTEGRATE OR INFUSE YOUR M&A DEAL? THERE ARE ARGUMENTS FOR BOTH
M&A STORIES - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
28 minutes
2 years ago
SHOULD YOU INTEGRATE OR INFUSE YOUR M&A DEAL? THERE ARE ARGUMENTS FOR BOTH
In today's episode, Rob and Toby continue the conversation about 'infusion', the art of purposely planning the deal as a value-add exercise and being committed to adjusting your operating model to 'infuse' the best of both sides. Rob and Toby kick off by proposing that traditional integration is what we refer to as 'scale deals' ie: bolting two entities together so the end result is more efficient, but principally a larger version of the two originating parts. Scope deals on the other hand ar...
M&A STORIES - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
In recent weeks Rob and Toby have veered slightly off the M&A topic to explore the emerging world of AI and how it might shake up M&A as we know it. In doing that we've arrived at the challenges of adopting adequate regulatory and ethical controls for AI and never mind the slow cumbersome legal system and how that might cope with AI.The key point is that AI needs global standards for regulation, ethics and legal controls and anyone with a degree of experience knows how difficult...
