Transforming While Transacting: Budgeting and timing for digital transformation

Is your board ready for the return of shareholder activism? M&A Views looks at how directors can respond.

What do you need to know to get the deal done in today's M&A market? How can a smart M&A transaction transform your company to make it more resilient?

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have been in the news—and for good reason. They're an increasingly popular alternative to the traditional IPO roadshow and a potentially lucrative outlet for pent-up cash reserves among private equity investors. In this episode, Mike Dziczkowski, Jeff Bergner, and David Oberst, M&A transaction service partners with Deloitte and Touche LLP, break down the history of SPACs.

In part two of this episode, Eric Capron, principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP and Justin Sullivan, senior manager with Deloitte Consulting LLP continue their conversation on M&A as a finance transformation catalyst and take a closer look at the benefits and challenges executives face when transforming their organization while closing a transaction, especially in the current environment.

In this episode, Eric Capron, principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP and Justin Sullivan, senior manager with Deloitte Consulting LLP discuss M&A deal activity trends and the role M&A can play in helping organizations transform their finance function.

In this episode Marcus Holzer, partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP's Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) practice and Anthony Blanchard, managing director with Deloitte Corporate Finance LLC discuss the impact M&A activity can have on OEMs, suppliers and dealers as the industry comes out of the current economic distress.

In this episode, Deloitte subject matter specialists discuss the Deloitte Divestiture Operating Model Toolkit, a structured approach to building divestiture models that best address the unique challenges of each transaction.

Digital transformation provides undeniable value to companies, but often it's hard to pin down what success looks like in an M&A deal; even more difficult is determining what those specific enablers of success are. In this episode of the Transforming While Transacting podcast series, Dounia Senawi, a principal in our Deloitte Consulting practice, reveals her top three enablers of success and provides firsthand examples of their outcomes.

How will emerging technologies and converging industries shape the future of the deal? Listen to our latest episode to hear more about the biggest trends impacting M&A activity.

What will the next generation of deal-making look like? Tune in to hear how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are helping organizations take their due diligence to the next level.

What's the M&A outlook for the oil and gas industry in 2019? Deloitte subject matter specialists discuss a number of different factors affecting each segment. Tune in for a dialogue about the trends to watch in this space.

Could a steep rise in M&A in Southeast Asia signal an uptick in deals around the globe? Tune in to part 2 of our episode on cross-border M&A to hear more about global deal activity and the biggest challenges companies could face when looking abroad.

Due diligence is always an important aspect of M&A. But when pursuing a deal abroad, doing your homework is even more critical. What else can you do to increase your odds of post-integration success in cross-border deals? Find out in our latest M&A podcast.

The outcome of M&A is always an unknown. With so many factors that can make or break a deal, how can the board play a more active role to help increase their organization's odds of post-integration success? Tune in to the latest M&A Views podcast to learn more.

Brick-and-mortar stores versus e-commerce. It's one of the biggest battles in retail. But could this have broader implications for the real estate industry? Tune in to learn more about technology's impact on real estate M&A and other trends expected to drive industry deals in the second half of 2018.

2018 could see record levels of deal value in the investment management industry. Listen to the latest M&A podcast to hear more about the drivers behind this uptick in inorganic growth and the benefits realized by larger firms.

From new technology to increased capital, what are the major trends motivating companies to want to make more and bigger deals in the year to come? In this episode, Russell Thomson, Deloitte's M&A Services national managing partner, breaks down the results from Deloitte's 2018 M&A trends report, including increased optimism in the market, digital disruption as a primary deal driver, and how legislative uncertainty may come into play.

"I would say there remains a very strong and healthy appetite for M&A."

The oil and gas industry saw a steady decline in deal activity over the course of 2017. Will this trend continue in the year ahead? In this episode, Andrew Slaughter, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions, and Ray Ballotta, Oil & Gas M&A industry leader, take a look at how oil prices and other factors could impact the level of deal activity in the industry.

"If we continue to see upward momentum in pricing, that is certainly a positive sign for M&A activity as we head into 2018."

As companies prioritize transformation, one of the most important considerations for M&A dealmakers is how transformation can bring greater value to the transaction. This episode of the Transforming While Transacting podcast explores the right approach to transformation planning, execution, and integration, plus considerations for determining its value and tax implications.

Deal volume in the consumer products sector is strong, but are newly-merged companies positioning themselves to succeed in the long run? In this episode, Deloitte's consumer products M&A leaders, Bryan Barnes, partner with Deloitte Touche LLP, and Shashi Yadavalli, principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP, review the four common types of M&A integration activity and discuss how companies focused on exceptional deal value are deliberate about driving business model coherence throughout their integration journey.

"Companies that drive toward a coherent business model in the long run generate nearly 50 percent higher shareholder value compared to the rest of the population."

Learn how the automotive industry may impact future deal activity.

Explore the keys to success for hitting post-deal revenue targets.

Learn more about the global banking industry and how FinTech could play a role in M&A activity.

Explore key trends influencing M&A activity in the banking industry.

Learn more about the trends causing fluctuations in M&A activity for the insurance industry.

Listen to our podcast to examine the current and future trends for life sciences and health care M&A.

Listen to our podcast and learn how data analytics can help you make more confident business decisions.

Discover how upfront design and planning are key to the success of a joint venture.

How can you set up a joint venture for success? Listen to our podcast and learn strategies to help increase the probability of operating and exiting joint ventures successfully.        

Join host Rob Dietrich along with Deloitte M&A consulting leader for private equity Bhuvy Abrol and Deloitte US private equity leader, Adam Reilly for a new podcast on private equity dry powder.

How can you plan for the uncertainty of spin-offs? In this episode of our M&A Views podcast series, we explore the types of spin-off costs, what increases the complexity of a transaction, and how you can minimize the associated expenses.

Culture can make or break M&A success, so how can you use it to your advantage? Deloitte's experienced M&A leaders discuss reasonable goals for timing and results, and the importance of looking at culture before day one. Tune in to the latest M&A Views podcast to explore this topic further.

Can you use culture to make your M&A transactions succeed at a higher rate?  Yes—and in this podcast, we'll talk about some specific ways M&A leaders are using culture to their advantage. 

This five-minute podcast can help you jump-start your thinking on the role of culture in M&A—and, most important, what you can do about it. 

Catch the new Transforming While Transacting podcast hosted by Raed Masoud in which we reimagine transformation in M&A.

We will explore the significant opportunities to drive value in financial process automation, and the disruptive technologies that make it possible.

What do today's finance technologies offer executives overseeing an M&A deal? On this M&A Views episode, we're talking about how finance automation and other leading-edge tools can help finance leaders reduce their teams' burden when it comes to preparation that pays off on day one and beyond.

On this episode of M&A Views, we explore what's driving a recent uptick in oil and gas M&A, how energy M&A activity is changing amid new sustainability initiatives, and the types of opportunities investors are eyeing in a shifting energy landscape.

In this podcast episode of M&A Views, we connect with Chris Madsen, principal in Deloitte's M&A Consulting practice, specializing in mergers and acquisitions across the health care and technology sectors. We discuss the challenges Deloitte is solving for clients by using Deloitte's proprietary technology solution, DigitalMIX.