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"Many mergers and acquisitions fail to deliver anticipated benefits due to poor due diligence on IT Licence Compliance which can reveal hidden liabilities and cost, sometimes more than the purchase price of some companies."

Mary Roy - MD, CTMS

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The hidden software risk exposure in M&A activity

With mergers and acquisitions activity on the increase, businesses are faced with some significant IT challenges. Whether your organisation is planning for, in the process of, or has recently been involved in a merger or acquisition then understanding the legal and compliance issues around your IT estate, and in particular your software licensing position, is pertinent to mitigating potential high software risks. Ignoring the hidden software risks in your M&A deal could have an enormous impact on your bottom line.

At CTMS we have had years of experience in dealing with software risk and as a result have developed a simple but pragmatic solution for organisations in M&A situations. The CTMS fixed price M&A IT Review Service is a cost-effective way to quickly understand an organisation's commercial business risk profile as well as ensuring that the directors' potential liabilities on sale are understood with any business and legal risks covered.

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In the UK, M&A deals worth £31bn+ were struck in the first quarter of 2007.
(Thomson Financial)
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85 % of M&A transactions fail or do not meet expectations because of the inability to integrate inherited IT systems and data.
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Only 9% of business leaders considered their M&A to have been "completely successful". (Hay Group)
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