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Strategic investors drive roughly 70% of all U.S. M&A transactions

The bargain between company's C-level and entrepreneurs is being eroded too

Strategic investors (operating companies, competitors, suppliers, or corporate buyers) focusing heavily on long-term operational synergies, market expansion, and product diversification rather than short-term financial returns.

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What are we think​ing about for entrepreneurs and C-level?

As the person responsible for company's investments

I want to understand the risks associated with changes in legislation so that I can safeguard the company's long-term strategies for increasing asset value.

As the person responsible for the company’s strategy

I want to understand the semi-legal schemes that competitors might use and how this will affect the company, so that I can prepare to fight these schemes in court alongside the SEC, the FTC and the CFTC.

As the person responsible for the company’s ​corporate governance

I want to understand the concerns of regulators and institutional investors so that I can strike a fair bargain between the corporate board, C-suite and shareholders.

As the person responsible for the company’s ​big deals and litigations

I want to understand, identify and mitigate upcoming legal, regulatory, cybersecurity and reputational risks relating to new projects, so that I can effectively direct complex commercial agreements and litigation strategies.

What happens if some questions weren't asked?

Motorola Mobility: Google paid $12.5bn (2012), sold the hardware business to Lenovo for $2.9bn two years later.

Tumblr: Yahoo paid $1.1bn, Verizon later sold it to Automattic for a reported well under $100m.

Myspace: News Corp paid $580m, sold for around $35m six years later.

Skype: eBay paid $2.6bn, took a $1.4bn impairment before eventually selling most of it to investors.

Broadcast.com: Yahoo paid $5.7bn in stock at the dot-com peak; the business effectively disappeared.

Nokia Devices: Microsoft paid $7.2bn (2014), wrote off $7.6bn the next year and largely exited smartphones.

American International Group (AIG): Recorded a loss of $61.7 billion in Q4 2008, the largest quarterly corporate loss in history, driven by toxic mortgage asset write-downs and credit default swaps. Fannie Mae: Suffered subprime mortgage write-downs peaking at $29.4 billion in Q3 2008.

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