Topic: "Anatomy of M&A -  A Practical Guide to Making Deals"

Speakers: Dr. VS Parthasarathy, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Somaiya Vidyavihar Universi and Dr. Asha Prasuna, Professor & Head, Department of Economics at K J Somaiya Institute of Management and authors

Presentation:
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) as a corporate strategy has been adopted by corporates both at global and domestic level. While global M&As have been active since the 1980s, Indian M&A activity picked up from the late 1990s with the economic reforms and liberalization policies that were initiated in 1991and have been continued till date.  M&A has been one of the critical inorganic ways of growth strategy. There are many reasons and synergies associated with the M&A activities.   Research in this domain showed mixed results. While M&A provides a positive short-term impact on the financial matrix of the combined entity, post-integration challenges lead to adverse effects and thereby disappoint some of the stakeholders. The success and failure of an M&A deal can be varied based on the type and objective of the deal. There has been a gap in the comprehension of the academic research and practitioners’ way of analysing the performance of a deal and its impacts. 
 

It is in this context that this book attempts to provide both the perspectives wherever needed, it tries to integrate them with theoretical research and practitioners’ views.
 

The elements in the 12 chapters:

A. What makes this book different?
- Covers the entire M&A lifecycle – from deal rationale to integration and post-merger evaluation.
- Introduces an original M&A Risk Scoring Model to assess success potential.
- Combines academic theory with over 100 years of boardroom and consulting experience.
- Includes Indian case studies on M&A and global examples like Tata-Corus and Facebook–WhatsApp.
- Addresses emerging issues like ESG in mergers, climate risk, and communication gaps.
B.  What you’ll learn:
- When and why companies pursue M&A deals in India and globally.
- How to evaluate synergies and business valuation methods including DCF, multiples, and DDM.
- Risks, cognitive biases, and how to avoid costly mistakes.
- How to evaluate success after the merger.
- Future trends in Mergers and Acquisitions – ESG, climate risk, and communication strategies.
 

Authors' bios:

V S Parthasarathy has more than 37 years of rich experience wherein he has successfully led businesses, functions, organization transformations and over 125 M&A transactions. He is on the board of several listed and unlisted companies. To name a few, he is an Independent Director on Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), NIIT MTS a Edutech Listed company and Pennar Industries. He is on the board of Governors of IIM Mumbai (earlier NITIE). He started his career with Modi Xerox and rose to a position of Associate Director, serving across multiple positions and locations. In Mahindra Group, where he served more than two decades, his last role was as the President of Mobility Services Sector. Prior to that, he was the Group CFO & Group CIO for seven years. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Mahindra Group Executive Board and been on the board of several listed companies. He was President of the prestigious Bombay chamber of commerce (BCCI) and Chair for many industry bodies. He is awarded Lifetime achievements for his CIO, CFO and Business roles. He is a Chartered Accountant from ICAI, India and ICAEW, UK and an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s AMP (2011). He holds a PhD in Management from the University of Mumbai.

Asha Prasuna is presently serving as Professor & Head, Department of Economics at K J Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai. She has over 30 years of Industry, Academic, Research, and Consultancy experience. She obtained MA, M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Hyderabad. She is a recipient of UGC JRF and SRF during her doctoral studies. Her Industry experience includes AVP Economist at Unit Trust of India, Senior Domain Specialist at Dun & Bradstreet India. She was granted two copyrights, two patents and had published one patent. She published several research papers in peer-reviewed journals and jointly published six textbooks. She is on the Editorial Board and Guest Editor for a special issue of one of the Springer Nature journals. She served as a member of the Finance Academy of a leading conglomerate and a rating agency based at Mumbai. She is on the Advisory Board of Bell Awards for Innovations and Subject Matter Expert at Indian Institute of Banking & Finance, and two startups.

S.N.V. Sivakumar is currently Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Somaiya Vidyavihar University and Professor of Economics at K J Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai. He has around 35 years of academic and research experience. He obtained MA, M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Hyderabad. He is a recipient of the Gold Medal from Kakatiya University for securing first rank in graduation. Under his supervision, so far sixteen scholars were awarded doctoral degrees in general management and economics from the University of Mumbai and SNDT Women’s University. He was granted one patent and two copyrights and published one patent. He published several research papers in peer-reviewed journals and published three textbooks.
 

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