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Microsoft plays the acquisition game

2022 has brought the largest gaming-based acquisition in history. In mid-January, Microsoft announced it was going to purchase Activision Blizzard, a well-known game-creator, for an eye-watering $69 b...

Four different types of acquisition deals for 2022

Recent history has held a mirror up to many businesses large and small and in a broad spectrum of markets. The mirror has revealed weaknesses in many business models. Paradoxically, it has also reveal...

How to avoid making a bad acquisition deal in 2022

The key to ensuring a merger or acquisition deal goes smoothly and delivers on strategic objectives, is to do start your own due diligence from the start, assess every option and build yourself a cred...

Why making multiple M&A deals could be better than one large deal

The business press has been filled with stories of mega-deals for decades. Little surprise, the pipeline of consolidation deals among titans of industries has been plentiful since the turn of the mill...

Industries where we will see acquisitions in 2022 and beyond

Buying another company has increasingly replaced R&D to become the preferred growth and innovation strategy across many sectors of the global economy. As markets continue to grapple with the after...

Pent up demand for acquisitions already breaking deal records

2021 saw more than US$5 trillion worth of M&A deals as more than 62,000 companies around the world changed ownership. For context, that is the equivalent of the entire German economy. No wonder ba...