M&A STORIES - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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M&A STORIES - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
These M&A War Stories podcasts are for anyone engaged in M&A or Divestment activity. Every week your hosts Robert Heaton & Toby Tester, along with special podcast guests, will draw on their past M&A experience through case studies and what hopefully will prove to be interesting stories. By chipping...
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HIGH SPEED AI vs CUMBERSOME LEGAL, REGULATORY AND ETHICAL DEVELOPMENTS
In recent weeks Rob and Toby have veered slightly off the M&A topic to explore the emerging world of AI and how it might shake up M&A as we know it. ...
THE URGENCY FOR ETHICAL AND REGULATORY CONTROLS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Robert and Toby have been clamping at the bit to start talking about the need for strong ethics, regulatory and legal instruments to manage and contro...
WILL THERE BE AN AI DRIVEN M&A WAVE - SOONER OR LATER?
This week, the Dynamic Duo of Robert and Toby ponder on whether AI will drive a new wave of AI-influenced M&A transactions - or not. Certainly, 2023...
WHAT ROLE SHOULD AI PLAY IN THE M&A PROCESS
Robert and Toby continue to delve into the topic of AI and in this episode, we start to examine how AI is or will impact each of the typical M&A proce...
TRYING TO DEFINE AI IN ALL ITS GUISES - THREAT OR BENEFIT - OPTIMISM OR WORRY
In the last episode, the dynamic duo (Rob and Toby) started to talk about the emergence of AI, and this week, we continued the conversation to try and...
M&A TOOLS - ARE WE ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE A MASSIVE LEAP FORWARD?
Robert and Toby often get together like old men on a park bench, to discuss a variety of topics. Some of them become podcasts, others don't. And somet...
M&A PIRATES AND BURIED TREASURE
There is one certainty in life and that is if you choose any metaphor, Toby Tester can link it to M&A, and he doesn't even blink.
In toda...
IN THE BEGINNING - WHERE DID M&A START?
To start with a tongue in cheek disclaimer: If we've offended any Corporate Lawyers or Investment Bankers in the recording of this podcast, we did so...
They're Back! THE DEADLY DUE HAVE RETURNED FROM THEIR ENFORCED HIATUS
Just when you thought it was safe. Just when enough time had elapsed that you thought the future was safe and secure - - - THEY'RE BACK!
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THE TOP FIVE POST DEAL QUESTIONS FOR ANY CEO
It's the first podcast for 2023 from your hosts Rob and Toby and in this episode, Toby focuses on the top 5 post-close questions a CEO needs to ask on...
LOOKING BACK ON SOME OF THE MOST DISASTROUS M&A TRANSACTIONS
Well, this podcast was recorded in late November 2022, but a quick hospital visit so Rob could undergo full knee replacement surgery meant that we did...
MORE INSIGHTS FROM PTS CONSULTING. YOU HAVE TO BE A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE DEAL STRATEGY IF YOU WANT TO ADD VALUE
In this 2nd episode with PTS Consulting, we pick up with Barry Lewington and Hugh Van Wijk where we left off. but take time to delve deeper into some...
A CONVERSATION WITH PTS CONSULTING FOCUSING ON TECHNOLOGY IN M&A
In today's episode, I'm joined by Barry Lewington and Hugh Van Wijk from PTS Australia to talk about their experiences in managing the technology inte...
SHOULD YOU INTEGRATE OR INFUSE YOUR M&A DEAL? THERE ARE ARGUMENTS FOR BOTH
In today's episode, Rob and Toby continue the conversation about 'infusion', the art of purposely planning the deal as a value-add exercise and being...
THE ART OF ENGINEERED INFUSION
Well, Toby's back from his quest to conquer Spain and Malta, and he's fresh with renewed enthusiasm. So much so that he has invoked Alice in Wonderlan...
THE CULTURAL PROMISE IN M&A WITH GUEST ANIRVAN SEN
With Toby on vacation in Europe, I've had the opportunity to bring in a guest to the podcast, and I'm delighted that fellow M&A professional Anirvan S...
TOBY'S JOURNEY FROM MBA TO M&A - HIGHLIGHTS OF AN ENJOYABLE CAREER
In the last episode, we delved into Rob's background and how he got started in M&A. The tables have been turned, and it's Toby's turn to wallow under...
BEING IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME - HOW ROB GOT STARTED IN M&A
The dynamic duo aka Rob and Toby have spent many episodes talking about their respective M&A experiences, but we've never talked about how it all star...
EXPLORING VALUE CREATION - INNOVATION VERSUS THE BLEEDING OBVIOUS
So in today's episode, Robert and Toby continue their conversation around value creation in M&A, but this time taking a more philosophical approach to...
THREE PHASES OF VALUE IN M&A - PROTECTION - CREATION - INNOVATION
You might recall in the last podcast, that Robert and Toby got on a roll in talking about value creation during post-M&A integration so you won't be s...
TOBY'S PHILOSOPHICAL RANT - DON'T JUST SPREADSHEET IT - ENGINEER IT
Just occasionally, Rob and Toby get into the groove and thoroughly enjoy their chosen 'topic de jour' and today was one of those events. The dynamic d...
ROB AND TOBY GET EMOTIONAL
In today's podcast, Rob and Toby start to discuss the impact that positive and negative emotions can have on the success of any M&A integration. And...
ELON MUSK AND TWITTER - ARE WE ABOUT TO SEE A WIKI TWEET?
In today's episode, Rob and Toby attempt to make sense of Elon Musk's $44Bn acquisition of Twitter. Attempt is the operative word here because only El...
DO YOU WANT A SPAC?
When Toby first raised this as a podcast topic, I was immediately taken back to a phrase that my mother would use when I'd misbehaved, but it turns ou...
THE NOTION OF FRAUD AND ITS IMPACT IN EVERYDAY M&A DEALS
In recent episodes, Rob and Toby have started to look at M&A fraud and certainly, the HP Autonomy deal was on a massive scale, as was Theranos. And he...
THERANOS - THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
If you listened to the press this past year you must have heard snippets about Elizabeth Holmes, the young, attractive and charismatic CEO of Therano...
REVISITING HP'S DISASTROUS ACQUISITION OF AUTONOMY
You might remember in a previous podcast towards the end of 2021, that Robert and Toby discussed HP's disastrous acquisition of Autonomy and the huge...
THE STRANGE COMPLEXITIES OF AN M&A INTEGRATION MANAGER
THE DASTARDLY DUO ARE BACK!!!! Welcome to the first podcast of 2022
What do you get when you cross a project manager with a psychologist...
THE VERY LAST PODCAST FROM ROBERT AND TOBY - - MAYBE
Robert and Toby first decided to record this podcast when COVID forced everyone into lockdown. That was 18 months ago and the dastardly duo has record...
CHOOSE THE RIGHT LEADERSHIP STYLE FOR SUCCESS IN M&A
Robert and Toby have always extolled the quality of leadership as being fundamental to M&A success and most listeners would agree that executing the r...
EXPLORING THE NECESSITY FOR LEADERSHIP TO BE COMPETENT AT EVERY LEVEL OF THE BUSINESS
Leadership is an endless topic and this time around Robert and Toby examine M&A Leadership at the CEO level. Robert kicks off by giving two examples....
LEADERSHIP AND ITS MANY DISGUISES
Leadership is one of those topics that is really hard to wrap your head around because, in Robert and Toby's opinion, Leadership isn't just the person...
WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? ARE GOOD LEADERS SIMPLY BORN THAT WAY?
In this latest podcast, Robert and Toby have pivoted away from M&A disaster stories and moved towards an examination of leadership? Why you might ask....
GOOGLE BUYS AND SELLS MOTOROLA IN LESS THAN 2 YEARS
Another acquisition dissected by the dastardly duo of Toby Tester and Robert Heaton and this week it's Google's $12.5Bn acquisition of Motorola. A dea...
SPRINT AND NEXTEL - A RECIPE FOR SUCCESSFULLY LOSING $30 BILLION IN THREE YEARS
You might have thought that Robert and Toby would have run out of M&A disaster stories by now? Oh, Ye of little faith. THis week we explore Sprint's...
DAIMLER-CHRYSLER MERGER OF EQUALS - FROM $35bn to $7.4bn IN NINE YEARS
This week Robert and Toby discuss the failed 'merger. between automotive giants Chrysler and Daimer-Benz. On paper this was supposed to be a win-win....
ALCATEL LUCENT: THE TYRANNIES OF DISTANCE, LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND PERSONALITIES
A Frenchman and an American walk into a bar and over pissaladière and fried chilli chicken wings come up with the idea of working together and operat...
ORACLES ACQUISITION OF PEOPLESOFT - LARRY ELLISON AT HIS FINEST
In today's episode Robert draws on personal experience of Oracles acquisition of Peoplesoft and subsequently J.D.Edwards. Robert was part of J.D.Edwar...
AOL + TIME WARNER - HOW TO SPEND $350 BILLION AND LOSE $99 BILLION IN TWO YEARS
Robert & Toby continue to unpack some of the worst M&A deals in corporate history and this week it's the disastrous $350 Billion merger / acquisition...
HEWLETT PACKARD'S 2011 DISASTROUS ACQUISITION OF AUTONOMY
Last week we asked the question Could it get any worse?
Well, Toby has excelled as usual and the acquisition of Autonomy must go down in...