The Leading Edge - May 2011
The sixth edition of The Leading Edge (pdf, 1.9mb) has a clear focus on providing insight into trends in the transaction arena in FY12 and delivering optimum deal satisfaction and best practice integration strategies.
Results from our latest Capital Confidence Barometer highlight that growth is now a priority, and appropriately, insights from our 2011 corporate development survey identify common key success factors in integration, while also highlighting the potential pitfalls around transition of ownerships.
Despite growing optimism in the economy, working capital management should still be a priority for businesses, big and small. Whether exiting or acquiring, better working capital management offers extraordinary opportunities to improve the upside on your end of the deal.
For some corporates the impact of the downturn may be all but a distant memory; however the world is now facing a different battle, one with Mother Nature. We turn to our Queensland Partner, Grant Murdoch, who touches on how the disasters in the area have bonded communities and businesses across the State and left a legacy of civic pride, community strength and more meaningful and enduring partnerships.
Further away from home we hear from our Transaction Advisory Services Managing Partner in Greater China, Bob Partridge, on the new security review mechanism that has been introduced for foreign-invested M&As in China. He looks at what extra precautions Australasian deal makers should be looking to take before attempting to enter this growing market.
