M&A - Mergers and Acquisitions Basics

This course gets you an introduction into M&A topics for acquiring software companies.

Created byKarl Michael Popp

Last updated 1/2013

English

Course content

3 sections • 6 lectures • 1h 19m total length

Chances and risk of software business models in mergers and acquisitions12:34
What are the chances and risks in acquiring a software company? can i tell some risks based on the typical business model of a software company before a merger takes place?
This presentation gives all the answers by looking at chances and risks of software M&A by business models.
Management of Complexity in M&A12:44
Mergers and acquisitions are complex transactions. But how complex are they? what are the dimensions of complexity? How can we manage it?

This lecture gives anwers to these questions based on experience from many transactions. It shows the dimensions of complexity and ways to manage it.

By taking this lesson, you will be much better prepared for managing M&A.

The 7 Rules of due diligence14:45
This lecture gives you key insights into how to drive a technology due diligence successfully
Intellectual property due diligence of software companies10:59
In the software industry intellectual property is often the most important asset of a company. Besides employees and intellectual property there often are no other significant assets or means of production. But how is intellectual property generated and leveraged in the software industry?

So what is important if you acquire a software company regarding intellectual property? In a holistic IP due diligence, the stock of intellectual property rights, relations with all sources and all the relations of exploitation are examined. With the acquisition of a software company the following views on intellectual property are relevant:

Status and review of intellectual property at the target

The current state and future possibilities of utilization of IP
Open source licenses review in due diligence15:35
This lecture gives you insights into reviews of open source licenses in due diligence.
Starting with an overview of components of software products and a definition of characteristics of open source software, the lecture dives into details of open source reviews.
After the definition of utilizations, meaning how the open source software shall be used in commercial software and the rights needed to do so, the analysis can begin. The open source license terms can be now checked against the rights needed.

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This course is about an introduction to mergers and acquisitions. It provides information about chances and risks in mergers and acquisitions.

Merger integrations happen to be complex, so complexity and management of complexity is a key chapter of this course.

The focus is then put on due diligence and rules for due diligence as well as intellectual property due diligence and open source license due diligence is discussed.

The closing chapter is about rules for post merger integration.

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Course content

Introduction and general information2 lectures • 25min

Due diligence3 lectures • 41min

Post merger integration1 lecture • 12min

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