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How to Hire Talent for Today's M&A Climate

Category: Business
Duration: 00:51:21
Publish Date: 2020-10-02 20:25:03
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How do you hire talent in today’s M&A climate? This is what we discussed together with Nitin Kumar, CEO of Appnomic, and Rima Franklin, Chief Growth Officer of DealRoom. Here are some of the key takeaways from our interview:

“Just because your company has done a lot of deals doesn't make you good in the new world order.” - Nitin Kumar

Changes in the market and how that will affect hiring

  1. The delineation of the M&A process from value creation 
  2. There are no more serial acquirers so universal playbooks don't apply anymore.
  3. Emerging disciplines like technology diligence and commercial diligence and war gaming. 
  4. Higher execution uncertainty (i.e. COVID-19)
  5. Synergies are starting to mean less now. It's really about shareholder value. 
  6. The breakdown of functional integration and the pivot into structural integration.
  7. Financial engineering element in deals has been optimized.
  8. The importance of Operational leadership
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