Gerard Baynham is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura with over 15 years of experience in management consulting and deal making. Gerard has worked across a wide range of transaction types, including M&A, minority equity investments, joint ventures, alliances, partnerships, and divestitures.
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To make it through the downturn and return to growth, companies will need to rewire operations, reallocate resources, and in some cases reinvent business models. Joint ventures and partnerships can help many firms with those efforts.
Techniques to help take complex valuation issues off the table
How great JV CEOs prepare for, run, and follow up on “big” conversations with their owners and Boards to drive change. What’s your state of readiness?
For companies to consistently succeed at joint venture dealmaking, they will need creativity, rigor, and a map for what good looks like with the Standards for JV Dealmaking Excellence.
Exits from joint ventures are not always bad, but like death and taxes, they are usually unavoidable. Planning up front can make all the difference.
The potential rewards of successfully piloting a joint venture are enormous. Those who can navigate the considerable challenges should be a celebrated breed. Do you have the right stuff?
Sample questions and output for assessing satisfaction of secondees in a JV.
Without diminishing the situation, a crisis may serve as a valuable catalyst for JV owners and boards to stop debating and take action on fundamental changes to restructure and improve existing ventures.
Public commitments to gender diversity are not translating onto JV Boards. Natural resource companies are especially behind. Five reasons to change.
