

David Ernst is a Senior Advisor at Ankura with more than 35 years of experience advising on strategy, transactions, restructuring, and governance matters. David is recognized as a global expert in the field of joint ventures. He has advised dealmakers and senior client executives across a range of industries, including oil and gas, chemicals, metals and mining, semiconductors, consumer goods, and health care. During his career, he has advised on more than 250 venture transactions in 33 countries, involving more than $300 billion in value, and has also served more than 100 existing joint ventures on governance and restructuring.
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Overview of core challenges and keys to success for one of the toughest jobs in business, based on survey results from the JV CEO Effectiveness Assessment (Diagnostic).
What does it take to build a better JV Board and to manage the unique challenges that JVs face, relative to corporate governance? Having worked with hundreds of JVs over the years, our advice to any JV Board is to focus on getting seven things right. This article outlines each of these, and points to other critical tools and resources available to our clients.
The purpose of this article is to explain how the valuation process in JVs should be run – and to outline the most common and best of these deal structuring techniques.
Detailed description of deal options for a telecom JV transaction. Part of the Developing JV Deal Options Series.
Detailed description of deal options for an industrial company JV transaction.
Overall approach and sample insights on developing a comprehensive set of JV deal options.
Key insights from the Towers Watson / Ankura benchmarking of JV executive pay levels and practices