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Technische Universität München (TUM) found in a study released at the end of 2010 that five out of six M&A transactions fail. One-third of the examined company acquisitions or sales were not based on a deliberate, strategic decision of the buyer or seller. Instead, they were triggered by external factors, often by an offer. In addition, due diligence was often undervalued; most of the examined companies did not want to spend money on this issue. Post-merger integration was another field where mistakes were made. While this issue was regarded as important, it remained a matter of “trial and error”; there were no attempts to arrive at methodical or appropriate solutions of upcoming problems. Weiterlesen →