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Wednesday, October 1, 2025 Live Webcast

Mergers & Acquisitions: Tips and Speed Bumps to Avoid (X4-6588754)

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT
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2 CPE Credits in MT

OVERVIEW

Mergers, acquisitions and alliances have been and continue to be major avenues to organizational growth and increased competitive advantage. Despite the great initial promise of many mergers and alliances, few seem to yield the anticipated results.

Numerous studies indicate that between 55% and 77% of mergers fail to accomplish their intended purpose. This course helps financial professionals, and their advisors identify, execute, and consummate mergers and acquisitions that create shareholder value while avoiding the many traps that can cause post-acquisition failure.

DESIGNED FOR

Financial professionals

BENEFITS

  • Identifying the key considerations when exploring mergers as a tactic to achieve strategic objectives
  • Understanding some of the key issues to consider when utilizing mergers

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Making strategic acquisitions
  • Identifying potential acquisition candidates
  • Alternatives to M&A
  • Identifying and understanding organizational culture
  • Understanding the keys to effective and efficient due diligence
  • Planning and executing an effective integration
  • Key considerations

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

None

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

INSTRUCTOR

Richard Karwic

Richard A. Karwic, M.B.A.

The Knowledge Institute, LLC

Richard A. Karwic, MBA, is a management consultant and financial executive with over 35 years of relevant financial and managerial experience. In addition to fifteen years of broad-based management consulting, Karwic has fifteen years of experience as the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for several diverse businesses in a wide variety of industries. He also has three years of experience as Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions for a mid-cap investment banking firm. Through permanent positions and consulting, Karwic has worked in over 100 businesses and divisions of large Fortune 500 companies. His consulting practice based in Wethersfield, Connecticut focuses on strategic planning, interim CFO work, operating budgets and forecasting, business reviews, pre-acquisition analysis, cost systems, and a wide variety of HR and general management projects.

PRICING

$79.00 - Member

$109.00 - Nonmember

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Note: Online pre-registration will close on October 1 at 1:30 PM.

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