Did you enjoy the stories contained in "The Management of Mergers and Acquisitions” ?
If your answer is "Yes", I hope you will read this latest one. If your answer is "No", then why are you reading this? (Just kidding …)

The short story below is told from the viewpoint of a mergers and acquisitions consultant. It is built around two themes:

• The first deals with the way work is organized within teams working on mergers and acquisitions; the lessons learnt are just as useful for consultants as for the buyer's in-house teams.
• The second theme is not a management issue, but I felt it was important to raise a serious topic permeating the financial community and in particular the world of mergers and acquisitions. You'll understand more as the story unfolds.

Happy reading – even to those who answered "No" to my first question…