The role of the Chair in a successful merger | Philip Aiken, Chair at Aveva PLC and Balfour Beatty PLC

Send us a textBankers around the globe are getting ready for a wave of corporate takeovers. Covid-19 has changed the position of many private and family-owned businesses and they are forced to exit earlier than expected. Others had to put plans on hold to see how Covid pans out. While it is easy to build the case for mergers and acquisitions on paper, most fail and destroy value for their shareholders. Welcome to the Better Boards podcast series. I am Dr Sabine Dembkowski, Founder and M...