What happens when your company is the one being acquired? In this episode of Run The Numbers, Evan Fein Global Chairman of The F Suite, shares his experience navigating acquisitions from the CFO seat. He breaks down key metrics like ARPU 📊, the nuances of due diligence 🔍, and the balancing act of keeping the company running while managing M&A.
🎧 Tune in to learn:
✅ How to work with investment banks & boards
✅ When to share customer data & manage bad news
✅ The hidden challenges CFOs face in M&A
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So as the CFO, you're in this unique spot where you have to run the due diligence on one hand, right? You're the best position to give the other party info, but you also have to keep running the company to make sure it achieves the results and that plan that you gave them. How hard is it to kind of have two different sides of your mind during the process? Yeah, it is hard. You one, you need a good team around you. You need a right hand person. I've always had a good right hand person that I could rely on. And you need an excellent investment bank that you can rely on and more and more. You know, I'm the investment banks are, are, are doing more for the company, but it used to be that the company ran the financial model and then and then the investment bank would kind of help with the financial model, but they wouldn't really run it. And now I think the investment banks just kind of run the whole financial model. The last time I was in a process, they make sure that customer data cube matches up to the financial model and do all the checking. So, so you can ask more of your investment bank. Than you used to and that's very helpful in allowing you to keep proper balance between the company you know and the process.
