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Key Regulatory Considerations for M&A in the Current Market Jun 12, 2023

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Mark Legaspi, Director, Legal - Corporate at LinkedIn

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:53 Key Considerations for M&A in 2023

05:22 Regulatory Challenges

09:41 Effect of Regulatory on Negotiations

15:43 Managing Value

17:51 Other Considerations Regarding Regulatory Risks

20:38 Suing the Regulatory Bodies

32:18 Regulatory Effects on Employees

34:08 Other Deal Killers in M&A

38:04 Trademarks Killing Deals

40:30 Market situation with IPs

42:22 Deal Breaks Due to IP

43:48 Advice for Deal Teams

46:39 Craziest thing in M&A

The Evolution of M&A Functions Jun 05, 2023

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David Hindley, VP of Corp Dev at Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK)

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 Intro

05:00 The Evolution of M&A Functions

06:48 Deal experience as a Banker vs. Corp Dev

15:04 Leading an evolving M&A function

16:13 How the strategy evolved

18:07 Scoring opportunities

19:28 Speeding up the evolution for efficiency

21:31 Working with functional leads

22:29 Aligning the functions

24:10 Business Units

25:08 Corporate Development structure

27:57 Accountability

29:11 Working with integration folks

32:41 Evolution of the governance model

33:56 Success metrics

35:42 Retaining deal learnings

37:04 The hiring process

40:19 Lessons learned

41:26 Craziest thing in M&A

Thriving in Times of Change With Flexibility in Your Integration Planning May 29, 2023

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Staci van Schagen, Head of M&A Integration & Disentanglement at Philips

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 Intro

05:40 Running global Integrations

08:08 Adapting to different cultures

09:37 Fostering safety in IMO

11:31 Continuous Improvement

13:57 Delivering integration outcomes

18:16 Dealing with uncertainties during integration planning

20:52 Threshold for mistakes during integration

24:56 Using reflections to run integration

28:57 Deal sizes affecting preparations

31:51 Upskilling scenario planning

32:53 Craziest thing in M&A

Best Practices When Selling a Business May 22, 2023

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Jeff Wald, Co-founder of Bento Engine

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 Intro

03:44 Best practices during exits

04:41 Thinking about an exit

09:54 Engaging with investors

14:13 The path to being acquired

18:24 Tips for Outreach

19:49 First conversation

25:11 Key people when executing deals

29:00 Negotiating Law firm prices

30:16 Negotiating LOI

34:37 Confirmatory due diligence

37:06 Communicating with employees

39:13 Announce day

44:55 Integration

47:46 Craziest thing in M&A

How to Focus on Integration as a Corporate Development Professional May 15, 2023

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Brent Campbell, Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Alight Solutions (NYSE: ALIT)

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 Intro

05:46 Importance of Integration

07:38 Gaining integration perspective

10:12 Negative consequences of neglecting integration

12:53 How corporate development can focus on integration

15:38 Challenges in integration

18:22 Challenges in aligning stakeholders

21:04 HSR restrictions

22:27 Integration structure

24:19 Building the integration muscle

32:06 Business sponsor

34:02 How to measure integration success

37:13 Craziest thing in M&A

The HR Practitioner's Guide to Cultural Integration in M&A May 08, 2023

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Klint Kendrick, HR and M&A Leader | Keynote Speaker | Author of the HR Practitioners Guides to Mergers & Acquisitions

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EPISODE TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

05:30 The role of HR in M&A

09:55 Importance of identifying a potential culture clash

12:40 Cultural due diligence

17:27 Pre-LOI cultural diligence

22:09 Finding culture fit

24:48 Five Areas of culture clash

49:39 Deal-specific considerations

59:48 Taking findings that impact the deal terms

1:02:55 Assessing the level of cultural diligence

1:05:40 Transformative deals

1:09:44 The secret sauce to overcoming culture clash

1:12:44 Craziest thing in M&A

Valuation Principles and Working with Earnouts May 01, 2023

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PJ Patel, Co-CEO & Senior Managing Director at Valuation Research Corporation (VRC)

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EPISODE TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

08:37 Market Trends

11:15 Maximizing your company's valuation

12:24 Growth vs Cash flow

13:35 The effect of Storytelling on valuations

14:27 Investor's Influence on Valuation

17:14 Things to avoid as an operator

19:14 Common Mistakes in Valuation

20:53 Impairment

23:42 Implications of impairment

25:49 Purchase price allocation

29:05 Earnout structures

32:34 Length of earnouts

32:51 Computing for Earnouts

38:33 Negotiating Earnouts

41:06 Craziest thing in M&A

Growing through Multiple Roll-ups Apr 24, 2023

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Sam Youssef, Founder and CEO at Valsoft Corporation

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EPISODE TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

05:44 Looking at business through a different lens

09:19 Distinguishing good acquirers

11:17 Identifying the right segment and deal size

15:07 Platform play acquisition

19:57 Approaching target companies

23:16 Financial structure

26:09 Challenges in building an M&A muscle

29:42 Driving value from synergies

30:56 Getting the right people

32:49 Sharing learnings

38:39 Craziest thing in M&A

The Complexities of Smaller Deals Apr 17, 2023

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Kevin Griffin, Executive Director, Corporate Development at JLL (NYSE: JLL)

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EPISODE TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

04:15 Focusing on smaller deals

06:48 Sourcing deals

08:10 Pros and cons of a competitive auction process

15:47 Cons of doing a proprietary deal

18:35 Benefits of doing a proprietary deal

22:15 Relationship problems

23:24 Proprietary deals vs auctions

25:32 Educating founders on the deal process

26:13 Working with lawyers

27:40 Biggest challenge when educating founders

29:42 Valuation

31:09 Negotiation

34:49 Earnouts

41:45 Making earnouts successful

43:19 Retention with smaller companies

44:17 Best Practices to retain people

46:08 Craziest thing in M&A

People-Focused Integration Apr 10, 2023

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Marilyne H. O'Hara, Global Head of M&A Integration at Block (NYSE: SQ)

This episode is sponsored by the M&A Science Academy, DealRoom, and FirmRoom.

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If you're a head of corporate development and looking to build up a world-class M&A team, reach out to me at kison@mascience.com

EPISODE TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Intro

05:20 What is People-Focused Integration

06:02 Ideal Integration Process

08:46 Strong Partnerships With Deal Leads

12:25 Consequences of Late Integration

14:53 Building the Integration Team

20:41 Involving the Integration Team

22:29 Integration Led Diligence

24:07 Building an Agile Team

28:30 Understanding Culture