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Avoiding The M&A Failure Trap: Q&A With NYU’s Baruch Lev And SUNY Buffalo’s Feng Gu

Global Finance

Together, they recently published The M&A Failure Trap: Why So Many Mergers and Acquisitions Fail, and How the Few Succeed (Wiley). What is it about the current M&A environment that prompted you? Lev: Three years ago, Feng and I, as keen observers of M&A, saw several troubling things.

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FTC, Lawmakers Turn Sour On M&A; Could Innovation Suffer?

PYMNTS

M&A DOA? As PYMNTS reported late last week, the regulator remarked that antitrust enforcers should be on guard against dominant companies buying emerging startups. As PYMNTS reported late last week, the regulator remarked that antitrust enforcers should be on guard against dominant companies buying emerging startups. “A

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#FA Success Ep 361: Scaling A $2.4B Advisory Enterprise With Debt-Financed Acquisitions Into High-Productivity Pods, With Peter Tiboris

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Peter is a Partner of Park Avenue Capital, an advisory firm affiliated with Northwestern Mutual based in New York City, that oversees $2.4 billion in assets under management for 1,377 client households.

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Small business strategy: Taking advantage of lower interest rates

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During that time, I’ve seen startups turn to zombies as they failed to raise VC funding, growth stumble as digital marketing turned upside-down, and small businesses struggle to pass price increases onto customers. If you do want to make a major product change, consider acquiring a proven technology through M&A (see below).

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Head Of Facebook M&A Defends Instagram Acquisition

PYMNTS

Amin Zoufonoun, who heads up Facebook’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A), defended the company’s Instagram purchase in a Facebook post amid investigations by lawmakers and regulators, CNBC reported on Thursday (Nov. At that time, Instagram was struggling with the infiltration of spam and had no plan in place to make money.

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M&A Marks Unicorn Activity

PYMNTS

It’s been rather quiet on the unicorn front in past weeks, but some activity of note more recently did extend across mergers, acquisitions and even a downround. In other possible M&A news, Airbnb is reported to be in talks to acquire Tilt, a startup that would help expand the booking service into actual payments.

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Gojek, Grab Refute Merger Rumors

PYMNTS

Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing giants Gojek and Grab are holding discussions about a possible merger, The Information reported on Tuesday (Feb. A merger would create one of the world’s most highly valued startups, with Gojek valued at $9 billion and Grab valued at $14 billion. A merger between Grab and Gojek could make $16.7