JV Alchemist Editorial Team

Overall context and framework for developing talent in JVs through collaboration between JV and parents.

Using diplomacy and defense to level the playing field in partnerships with host governments

The purpose of this note is to summarize our analysis of the 33 legal agreements, and to offer some thoughts on how dealmakers and drafters of legal agreements might better define terms related to corporate standards and policies in their JVs.

Corporate Controllers, General Counsel, and Heads of Risk and Internal Audit should take a closer look at what is actually happening in noncontrolled ventures. The reality on the ground is ugly, but fixable.

The purpose of this note is to discuss what a good JV stage-gate approval process does differently – namely, address JV-specific issues, and incorporate earlier launch planning – and to examine two companies with world-class JV stage-gate approval processes.

Overview of the process of defining an operating model, and what an operating model looks like (including a case study).

Practical suggestions for better deadlock- and dispute-resolution terms in JV agreements.

Overview of a process for determining the level of alignment around JV issues, and addressing any misalignments, with particular focus on the JV Alignment Profile.

When and how to use a shareholders’ committee.