Acquiring for Advantage: How to Buy the Right HR Tech Company
This webinar provides HR Tech founders, execs and buyers with insights into navigating acquisitions, valuations & strategic fit, to achieve smart growth through acquisitions of other HR Tech organisations. 🚀
Key topics include:
The Strategic Value of Acquisition: Examines how buying a company can accelerate growth, expand capabilities, and offer a faster path to market dominance compared to organic growth.
Motivations for Acquisition: Explores various drivers behind acquisitions, such as gaining access to new markets, acquiring technology or talent, eliminating competition, or enhancing service offerings.
Identifying and Engaging Targets: Offers practical guidance on sourcing potential acquisition targets, assessing strategic fit, and initiating engagement in a way that builds trust and interest.
Valuation Fundamentals: Covers methods for valuing HR tech companies, including revenue multiples, EBITDA analysis, and market comparisons, with an emphasis on aligning price with strategic value.
Deal Structure Considerations: Discusses the components of a successful deal, including earn-outs, equity vs. cash terms, and integration planning to ensure post-deal success.
Common Pitfalls: Highlights risks and challenges such as cultural mismatches, underestimating integration complexity, and overpaying, and provides tips to avoid them.
The webinar will be hosted by our very own CEO at AMP Strategists, Howard Flint, and our panel of experts will be:
Dan Martin - M&S Strategic Adviser, AMP Strategists
Dan has extensive experience of buyside M&A, having worked as M&A advisor in both investment banking and Big 4 consultancy, and also as principal when running the Digital M&A team at DMGT Plc. During this time he has bought a number of HR Tech businesses, and as an HR Tech leader has experienced both sides of the transaction
Paul Daley - CCO, Org Group
Paul is currently Chief Commercial Officer at Org Group. A global leader in talent solutions, tech consulting and outsourcing. Prior to this, Paul has been a strategic advisor to a number of high growth HR Tech businesses, advising the board on organic and inorganic growth strategies. Paul was also the global Corporate Development leader at Cielo, a leading Talent Solutions business. Here he identified and led the execution of a number of acquisitions across the world.
William Cooke - Investor, Cow Corner
Event details:
⏰ Thursday, 10th July at 4pm, BST
📍 Streamed live online from Riverside [link will be sent following registration]
Please allow approximately 45 minutes, during which you will have the opportunity to Q&A our panelists with any burning questions you have on HR Tech acquisition.
See you there!