ABSTRACT Compliance has received increased attention since the late 1990s. Countries have either enacted new and stronger laws and/or increased enforcement of existing laws to address specific areas, especially in the areas of bribery and corruption, money laundering, labour and data privacy. As will be...
Introduction Imagine that you are a car enthusiast, and you take interest in reading about the German brand of cars – Mercedes, BMW and Volks Wagen. When you want to purchase your next car, your choice of which car to buy will very likely have ...
Introduction Selling a business (asset or company) should not be difficult. All a seller is ordinarily required to do is to deliver the business in exchange for payment. But this is not really the case for a seller in a Merger & Acquisition (M&A) transaction....
Introduction An M&A activity/transaction should be intentional. As obvious as this statement seems (simplistically, no one makes a buy or sell decision without ‘intending’ to do so), its importance to both sides of an M&A deal cannot be overemphasized. The Webster’s dictionary defines ‘intentional’ as...
The place of integrity Business relationships are frequently commenced (and terminated) every day around the world: mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, management buyouts, vendor engagements, outsourcing of business services – the list goes on and on. The main reason for commencing such relationships is not far-fetched....
