Entries tagged "Gerald Adolph"
M&A market optimism is hard to come by these days, but we managed to eek a little out of Gerald Adolph, who heads the merger and restructuring group at Booz & Co. In this edition of Inside The Deal, he tells The Deal's Suzanne Stevens that while new deal activity has slowed, he hasn't seen an inordinate number of his clients shelve deals already in the works. Adolph also wrote a column for The Deal newsweekly, in which he says strategic buyers with strong balance sheets are shopping for steeply discounted assets, particularly in industries where the stock of buyer...
In The Deal NewsWeekly Gerald Adolph and Goran Hagegard of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc lay out a 3-Year, 100-Day post-merger integration plan. Merging two organizations requires a vast amount of planning and attention to detail to create an entity that can perform in the near term and satisfy the overall strategic objectives of the partners. Yet it is all too natural to find oneself focusing mainly on the first 100 days after deal close. While this 100-day plan -- in practice a day one and short-term operating plan -- is critical to achieving the objectives of the transaction, focusing on...
