Current Trends in the M&A Industry

The last 5 years have taken M&A to a new worldwide dimension. Globalization is on its way and there’s nothing that can possibly stop it, not even the financial turmoil created by the sub-prime crisis. Globalization means more deals to be done by companies having less experience in M&A under increasing timing pressure. To avoid catastrophes, it means more and more professionalism in M&A, especially today when cash is scarce and expensive. Amateur acquirers will not only make bad deals, they will put their own existence at risk. >>>

The FAIR-M&A Initiative

The need for some industrialization of the M&A process is a “no brainer” for anybody having once in their life opti-mized an operating process. The M&A process is cumbersome and very inefficient. Having understood that, the FAIR-M&A project starts with an observation: all M&A professionals have their standards, limited to their own organizations. These standards are very close one from the other. FAIR-M&A is about unifying these standards making it possible to have them supported by a global information system. >>>