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M&A Science, hosted by Kison Patel (Founder & CEO of DealRoom), is your go-to podcast for mastering the art of mergers and acquisitions. Each week, Kison and his expert guests from leading brands like Xerox, FastLap, and Cisco dig deep into real-world M&A strategies, offering actionable insights to optimize your M&A practice. Whether you're an experienced practitioner or new to the field, M&A Science provides practical advice on key topics like sourcing, due diligence, integration, divestitures, and more. With over 300 episodes, this podcast is the premier thought leadership resource designed to streamline your deal-making process. Start listening today and visit mascience.com/podcast to access over 300 episodes. Brought to you by DealRoom, the leading M&A optimization platform used by the best M&A teams around the world
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Jul 29, 2024

Successful M&A is more than just closing deals. To drive growth and achieve strategic goals, companies must have a deep understanding of the process and a clear strategy. Strategic acquisitions are key to unlocking growth, innovation, and market expansion. 

 

In this episode of the M&A Science Podcast, Fred Heller, VP of Nuance, Corporate Development and Integration at Microsoft, shares his experience on how to transform a company through strategic acquisitions. 

 

Things you will also learn from this episode:

• Doing transformative deals as a public company

• Saving money on deals

• The hardest thing to negotiate in a strategic deal

• Transformative AI acquisitions 

 

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This episode of the M&A Science Podcast is brought to you by Insight.

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 This episode is also sponsored by DealRoom.

Ready to take your M&A to the next level with software made to manage each stage of the deal process? See how DealRoom can facilitate your next deal at https://dealroom.net

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 Intro
06:55 Business transformation through acquisition
11:51 Strategy behind the transformation
14:49 Doing transformative deals as a public company
17:53 Changes in market position
23:04 Divestitures
25:46 M&A experience
29:49 Knowledge vs Intuition
31:29 Importance of relationships in M&A
34:25 Saving money on deals
37:20 The hardest thing to negotiate in a strategic deal
44:02 Bad M&A story
48:04 Microsoft deal
52:59 Transformative AI acquisitions
57:04 Challenges during transformation period
58:13 Craziest Thing in M&A

 

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