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M&A: Why do Mergers & Acquisitions fail?

Merger and acquisition activity is really picking up, especially in technology where many of the large tech companies have plenty of cash and are finding themselves losing market share to smaller more nimble competitors.

But while M&A is in the headlines a lot recently, for every two transactions that close, there's another transaction that doesn't.....

Boris PetkovicSeptember 3, 2016

M&A: Is there a value gap between the US and Canada?

We often get asked by our clients that are considering M&A, whether or not Canadian tech companies trade at a discount to their US peers. In a perfect market there shouldn’t be a difference between the two, but as we all know, markets are rarely perfect.....

Boris PetkovicAugust 7, 2016

M&A: What to do when you get an inbound enquiry

The Canadian tech merger market has started the year off very strong, with $5.1bn of transactions compared to $3.1bn in all of 2015. In Ottawa we have seen a similar trend with 9 M&A transactions as of the end of June versus 10 for the whole of 2015.

But what’s driving this increased activity? A sizeable proportion of this deal activity is driven by what’s known as inbound M&A.....