Gun Shy on M&A? 10 Reasons to Get Trigger-Happy
Ignore the potential of acquisitions, and you ignore a vital, strategic vehicle. In the past five years we’ve seen it all — “roll-ups” (rapid-fire industry consolidations), “poof-IPOs” (companies that merge and go public on the same day) and corporate gigamergers (bigger than the mega ones of the ’80s). Recently much of this has come to an unhappy ending. Indeed, it’s…