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Keys to a Successful Corporate Acquisition: A Roundtable Discussion

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

Editor's Note: Buy-side acquisitions can be a critical component of a company's growth strategy. Yet, multiple studies estimate that the failure rate for target integration can be as high as 70%-90%. The due-diligence process presents a key opportunity to gather detailed business and legal information that can be leveraged to produce a better target integration process resulting in less breakage and also that better identifies transactions that should not be done. In this roundtable conversation, Maureen S. Dorney , Managing Partner, Paradigm Counsel LLP; Douglas Solomon , SVP, General Counsel and Secretary of NetSuite, Inc.; and Joseph Fung , VP HCM Products, NetSuite, Inc., discuss ways to conduct a new level of diligence and how this leads to a more effective integration process. Editor-in-Chief Adam Schlagman serves as the Moderator.

Acquisitions are an important element of many companies' business strategies. How early in the process do you advise that the legal department and outside legal advisers be brought into the process?

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