Little Known Lessons Learned from the Secretive $6 Trillion M&A Market
How to leverage M&A strategy as a successful tool for consistent non-organic exponential growth
The year 2021 was known for many records, such as the stock market, Crypto, Apple stock, and many more. But one record you may not have heard about is mergers and acquisitions transactions. At a whopping $6 Trillion, 2021 shattered all previous M&A records. But you don’t hear a lot about the M&A market. $6 Trillion was twice the annual average of the past decade. But what’s really unusual about the growing trend in mergers and acquisitions is that, year after year and survey after survey, the research into M&A deals shows that such transactions actually destroy value!
Yes, you read it correctly; they destroy value. I’ll get to that in a minute, and you’ll understand why and how this happens. But, more importantly, what I’ll be focusing on are the great lessons to be learned from this phenomenon for any business, whether or not you’re looking at mergers as a growth strategy.
Why Are M&As on a Growth Trend?
You may think that SPAC deals are the ones that contributed to the increase, but SPACs accounted for less than 10% of the total. There are many reasons for that, but some…
