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Two Ways This Can Go: The Risks of Mergers and Acquisitions
Claudia Bravo
When your company is doing well, you can look to expanding all over the place. A lot of companies in a similar position choose to expand via mergers and acquisitions. This allows your company a chance to grow without having to put forth a major effort to hire more employees or construct more buildings. However, there are definitely some risks involved with mergers and acquisitions, and you need to be aware of what they are before you charge into making financial offers you may regret.
Merging with a Failing Company
Merging with a failing company may lend that company some of your company's staying power and support it so that it stays open and running. Yet, conversely, that company could really be a financial drain on your own. You can buy and merge with a failing company because it is selling really cheaply, and you could revive it, but there is always the risk that merging with such a company could make your own company bankrupt. Be sure to consult with risk analysis consultants before moving forward.
Rock-Solid Business Plans Are Needed for Acquisitions
With mergers, you merge. With acquisitions, well, you decide what to do next with what you have acquired. Are you keeping some parts of the acquired company, most parts, or all of the acquired company? If you do not plan to keep most of the acquired company, what are you going to do with it? Sell it off in chunks? That is a good way to turn a profit on your investment, but only if you can successfully sell each chunk for more than what you paid for it.
If you are going to keep the entire company, you should have a rock-solid business plan for what you intend to do with it. Is it going to be operating as a separate entity? Are you eventually going to merge it into your own company? If you involve financiers and investors in your acquisition, they are going to want to know what your business plan is going forward before they give you a dime.
Fail or Succeed; There Is No Try
Mergers and acquisitions are risky because there are really only two ways for them to go. Either you will fail miserably with the merger or acquisition, or your company will grow and succeed to the point of crazy-good profits. It all boils down to good business sense and timing and knowing that you cannot just try this. You just do it and keep at it until the venture sinks or swims.
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