Is a potential merger or acquisition on the horizon? Clarifies changes within your business environment so you can align your activities and future vision appropriately. MORE

Beginning in early 2000, I led Andersen Consulting/Accenture’s clumsily named MAASCE – Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances Strategy Center of Excellence. Whether those be acquisitions or alliances. Create value. Increase value. Build or buy or borrow. Your menu. MORE

Antitrust laws are applied to a wide range of questionable business activities, including market allocation, bid rigging, price fixing, and monopolies. preventing mergers and acquisitions that may “substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly.” Antitrust laws,?also MORE

Widespread stagnation of industrial activities subdued the demand outlook for fluid power equipment, says Frost & Sullivan. Santa Clara, Calif. MORE

To expand revenue generation prospects, PPE manufacturers should explore these strategic recommendations: Above-the-neck protection: Major manufacturers will grow by consolidating their positions in existing markets as well as through mergers and acquisitions in unexplored regions. MORE

Opportunities include integrated supply chain agreements, joint venture partnerships to enter new markets, mergers and acquisitions, technology agreements and capital projects. MORE

The second common situation pertains to mergers and acquisitions, where a SME may enter discussions with a larger company, only to find that confidential circumstances in the discussion were breached, resulting in the misappropriation of trade secrets. As IP theft remains hard for firms to detect, much less obtain legal redress for, their incentives are to rely more on their own efforts to conceal trade secrets and less on patents that entail public disclosure. MORE