What we've learnt along the way

“M&A is a mug’s game, in which some 70% to 90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures” , HBR “83% of corporate mergers and acquisitions...

Conventional wisdom when assessing a potential acquisition is to highly value long customer contracts aka contracted revenue. The idea...

At Fordhouse, we consider dozens of investment opportunities for our partner businesses. While we have very specific criteria for...

Federated Integration and Full Integration each have their strengths and weaknesses, but at Fordhouse we believe that Full Integration is...

A post-acquisition integration is complex with many interdependent variables, but as long you use the customer and the employee lenses to...

Before we get into transaction advice, be aware that: M&A is highly complex and inherently laden with risk. Most of the value from an...