Governance is the work of the Board of Directors/governing body. Governance involves strategy formulation, policy making, supervision of the management team and accountability to shareholders and others. The shareholders, investors fund the organisation, the governing body; the Board of directors are charged with the duty of governing the organisation to best utilise the investments made.

A few of the most common mistakes in M&A transactions include poor due diligence, quantifying value in the wrong way, and not getting comfortable with the integration.

When planning an acquisition or divestiture, companies need a wealth of information in short periods of time. The same information needed for investors, tax regulators and service providers is also required by everyone else. It’s easy to share data spreadsheets, but getting a clear picture of the “big picture” is hard without proper recordkeeping.

It is understood that a duly incorporated company possesses a legal personality i.e. is seen as a person distinct from its founders. It has the rights of a physical person and can buy, sell, sue or be sued. It then becomes a valid question, how does a company which is an abstraction perform all of these functions? Through its officers e.g. Board of Directors, Employees, Contractors etc.