Mergers & Acquisitions
Are ESG factors a real option for increasing the value of a business in the M&A process?
At the start of the 2000s, private equity outfits discovered the concept of operational value creation for themselves. After buying a business, the temptation to increase its value by care-fully tweaking its operational value chain and generating fat profits was simply too great. Nearly 20 years later, a new lever for increasing business value appears to be establishing itself – the ability of companies to successfully implement the required ESG processes.