2024 M&A Best Practices Award Application

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M&A Best Practices Award Application

Please describe a process, initiative, technique, or strategy that you use in any one of the following deal-making or acquisition integration stages, and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice. Feel free to describe the practice in as many words as you wish.

Please choose just one of the following eleven deal-making or acquisition-integration stages to describe what you believe could be considered an M&A best practice.

1. Acquisition planning

Please describe an acquisition planning practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

1. Acquisition Planning

Describe the acquisition planning practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

2. Acquisition sourcing

Please describe an acquisition sourcing practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

2. Acquisition Sourcing

Describe the acquisition sourcing practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

3. Acquisition candidate courtship/management

Please describe a candidate courtship/management practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

3. Acquisition Candidate Courtship/Management

Describe the acquisition candidate courtship/management practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

4. Deal negotiations

Please describe a deal negotiations practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

4. Deal Negotiations

Describe the deal negotiations practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

5. Deal structuring

Please describe a deal structuring practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

5. Deal Structuring

Describe the deal structuring practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

6. Deal financing

Please describe a deal financing practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

6. Deal Financing

Describe the deal financing practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

7. Transaction closing

Please describe a transaction closing practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

7. Transaction Closing

Describe the transaction closing practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

8. Pre-closing communications

Please describe a pre-closing communications practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

8. Pre-Closing Communications

Describe the pre-closing communications practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

9. Post-closing communications

Please describe a post-closing communications practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

9. Post-Closing Communications

Describe the post-closing communications practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

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10. Integration planning

Please describe an integration planning practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

10. Integration Planning

Describe the integration planning practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

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11. Integration execution

Please describe an integration execution practice that you use and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice.

11. Integration Execution

Describe the integration execution practice and why you believe it could be considered an M&A best practice

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