Building your M&A Muscle - a podcast by Kison Patel

Nate Lemmerman, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Cast & Crew

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Episode Timestamps

00:00 Intro

06:10 Building an M&A function from scratch

09:05 Steps to building an M&A muscle

12:17 The strategy

15:38 Process and execution structure

22:16 Critical things to consider before signing a deal

26:04 Hiring people for the M&A team

28:30 Building the diligence muscle

30:01 People alignment in M&A

32:20 Building the integration muscle

35:39 Best practices when doing deals

37:55 Craziest thing in M&A

 

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