Acquire or get Acquired: An M&A deep drive
Loading ...The post lunch session was about how M&As (Mergers and Acquitions) would help emerging companies.The eminent speakers of this session were Vivek Gupta,Partner,BMR advisors, Vivek Agarwal,CEO,liqvid elearning services pvt ltd and Kami Narayanan,Co-CEO, Premedia Global.The moderator for the session was Anil Bakht,MD & CEO,Eastern software systems.
Vivek Gupta spoke about the M&A in today’s economy.He gave five mantras for M&As in todays world and highlighted the effect of them on M&A.The issue raised was in times of recession, how M&A would occur.He had a nice presentation to support his talk and one of the key points of his presentation was that deal activities are very slow nowadays which implies that credit markets are not functioning and the overall approach in economy is to wait and watch. So he stressed that this was the right time for building oneself and to gain as much as one can from the recession. He then spoke about the three plays of M&A, which are, volume plays,niche serves plays and technology plays.He then spoke about key scale consideration which includes profitability and strategic partnership.
This was followed by a wonderful speech by Vivek Agarwal, who started his talk by recollecting his past experience in selling egurukool to NIIT.He continued by saying that venture capitalalists look for commitment and involvement from the companies.The talk was concluded with the speaker explaining about the valuation of firms during an M&A.
Finally, Kami Narayanan shared her views on M&A and encouraged the emerging companies to go for M&A. Her view was that if one is on the lookout for acquiring companies one has to consider two factors namely whether acquisition will bring new customers and whether it will create any economies of scale. She feels it is essential for a company to retain key customers and employees with them rather than recklessly going in for restructuring. She summed up the talk by saying, “the key element of M&A is taking the right decision at the right time”. This concluded the ‘Insights Session’.
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