Intro to Merger and Acquisition Flashcards
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Mergers and Acquistion (1)
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- consolidation of companies or assets
- decision that the firm’s assets or ability to generate profit
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Mergers (1)
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- combining two or more companies, generally by offering shareholders of one company securities in the acquiring company in exchange for surrender of their stocks
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Acquisition (1)
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- one company purchases an interest in the acquired; asset or share purchase
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Divestiture (1)
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- sale of asset or business unit
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Two disciplines of finance (4)
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- what is something worth? valuation (cash flow, risk analysis)
- how will we pay for it? Deal structuring, capital raising (hedge)
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Basic Framework (6)
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- Strategize
- select target, screen, approach - Execute
- engage, negotiate structure, conduct DD - Realize
- seek approval
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Multi-Disciplinary approach (8)
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- legal and regulatory
- strategy
- tax and treasury
- valuation
- operation
- negotiation
- HR
- accounting
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Who’s involved in merger and acquisition (8)
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- senior management
- investment banks
- corporate banks
- internal and external consultant
- legal
- accounting
- tax
- business development
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M & A stakeholders (7)
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- stockholders
- debtholders
- employee
- union
- customers
- competitors
- suppliers
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Drivers of M & A (9)
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- technological changes
- economies of scale
- globalization, free trade
- change in industrial organization
- new industries
- deregulation and regulation
- economic and financial prosperity and growth
- negative trend in industries
- high/low equity valuation
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Horizontal mergers (4)
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- same industry
- economies of scales
- require regulatory approval
- roll up strategy: consolidate number of smaller companies
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Vertical mergers (5)
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- same industry, different stage of value chain
- security of supply
- cost saving
- transfer pricing
- critical components
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Conglomerate product extension (1)
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- same market but new product
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Conglomerate market extension (1)
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- similar product but separate market
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Conglomerate unrelated industries (3)
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- investment, financial, managerial
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First merger movement (1)
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- 1895- 1904
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Second merger movement (3)
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- 1922-1929
- transportation, communication, and merchandising
- vertical mergers and product extension
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Conglomerate merger (2)
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- defensive diversification
- 1960
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Deal Decade (3)
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- break up diversified firms
- financial innovation
- 1981-1989
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Strategic merger (2)
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- 1992-2000
- globalization, deregulation
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2000+ (3)
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- lower interest rate
- consolidation
- private equity
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Common characteristics of merger movement- environmental factors (6)
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- period of high economic growth
- favourable stock price and financial conditions
- technological changes (telephones)
- input price volatility (oil industry)
- legal and regulatory changes (deregulation)
- financing innovation (junk bond)
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Long term strategy (4)
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- vision
- culture
- plans
- policies and procedures
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Short term strategy (3)
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- tactics
- decisions
- actions
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Nature of strategy (5)
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- execute team decision
- organization must execute to fit strategy
- success changes- dynamic
- accelerator: suppliers’ impact by decline in sales
- sale to capacity relationship
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Corporate strategy (4)
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- focus on entire enterprise
- type of business that should be pursued
- resource allocation across business units
- how an enterprise is going to allocate resources, create synergies, and compete on broader scale
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Business strategy (4)
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- related to business unit
- short term
- tactical and strategic
- how to compete successful in specific business
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Essential strategic planning process elements (6)
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- assessment of change in organization environment
- evaluation of company capabilities and limitation
- assessment of expectation of stakeholders
- analysis of company, competitors, industry, and economic factors
- formulation of mission, goals, and policies for master strategy
- development of sensitivity to critical external environmental changes
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Steps for planning process (7)
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- formulation of internal organizational performance measurement
- formulation of long range strategy programs
- formulation of mid-range program and short term plans
- organization, funding and implementing all preceding elements
- information flow and feedback system for continued repetition of essential elements for adjustment and change at each stage
- review and evaluation
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Strategy Methodologies (19)
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- SWOT analysis
- top down and bottom up: do the business segment try and meet forecast or do they generate forecast
- computer model: complexity and inter-relationship
- competitive analysis: porter 5 forces
- synergy
- logical incrementalism: small steps to create major change
- muddling through: what policy alternatives are incrementally different than existing policies
- comparative histories
- delphi techniques: asking informed individuals non directly (survey), create report, then ask same idea
- discussion group technique
- adaptive process
- environmental scanning
- discontinuities
- brainstorming: delphi is anonymous
- game theory: logical assessment of competitors
- game playing: assign roles and simulate alternatives
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Analytical framework (18)
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- product life cycle
- learning curve
- cost leadership
- product differentiation
- value chain analysis
- niche opportunities
- product breadth
- profitability correlation
- market share
- product quality
- technological leadership
- focus matrix
- relatedness matrix
- growth share
- attractiveness matrix
- global matrix
- resource base views
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Boston consulting approach (4)
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- cost fall at a geometric rate with cumulative production
- development, growth, maturity, decline
- market growth, and share: star, cash cow, question market, dog
- CFROI = cash flow / market value of capital employed
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Porter approach (5)
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- threat new entrant, threat of substitute product, bargaining power of customers, bargaining power of suppliers, competitors
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Adaptive process (1)
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- uncertainty
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Strategy in practice (10)
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- goal setting
- economic, industry, environmental analysis
- competitive analysis
- valuation
- sensitivity analysis
- capabilities analysis
- discussion
- resources allocation and risk management
- feedback
- reassessment, reaction, and adjustment
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Strategy and structure (4)
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- U Form: small organization
- H Form: division are relatively independent
- M Form: partial autonomy but division share central function
- Matrix Form
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Sensible motive (7)
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- economies of scales: synergies
- vertical integration: eliminate customer/supplier
- risk reduction: growth, R & D
- complementary resources: product extension, geographical roll up
- unused tax losses
- surplus funds
- eliminating inefficiencies
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Dubious (4)
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- diversification
- earning per share
- lower financing cost
- management preference and hubris
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Specific strategies (4)
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- LBO: acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrow money to meet cost of acquisition
- MBO: transaction where a company management team purchases the asset and operation of the business they manage
- spin out of asset
- overcapacity M&A: eliminate capacity and gain market share or operating leverage
