Using M&A Best Practices to Get Better Deals

Published: Feb. 21, 2024, 6:12 a.m.

Brent Baxter, Chief Executive Officer at Association for Corporate Growth, and Jeff Giles, VP, Corporate Development at Core & Main (NYSE: CNM)

In a highly competitive market, speed is crucial for companies wanting to do M&A. Especially with all the economic and market changes that\u2019s happening, professionals must use M&A best practices to get better deals.\xa0

In this episode of the M&A Science Podcast, Brent Baxter, Chief Executive Officer at Association for Corporate Growth, and Jeff Giles, VP, Corporate Development at Core & Main, share their strategies and experiences when executing successful M&A.\xa0

Things you will learn:

\u2022 Target outreach

\u2022 Best practices when building relationships\xa0

\u2022 Challenges of working with private sellers

\u2022 Executing agile and efficient Diligence

\u2022 Role of technology in the M&A process

This episode is sponsored by the DealRoom.

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Episode Bookmarks

00:00 Intro

07:12 Getting deals faster

10:35 Target outreach

15:54 Best practices when building relationships

19:47 How to best optimize ACG

22:46 M&A challenges

25:20 Challenges of working with private sellers

29:39 Executing agile and efficient Diligence

34:53 Executing deals during COVID

39:59 Role of technology in the M&A process

42:06 Role of technology in the future

46:47 Craziest thing in M&A

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