Peter Groves has over 40 years’ commercial legal experience, as a practising solicitor, in-house legal adviser, lecturer, trainer, published author, blogger and podcaster. His practice has always comprised mostly non-contentious intellectual property work, along with IT contracts, data protection, competition law and IP litigation, and he has considerable experience of assisting in due diligence exercises including a Formula One motor racing team and a Premier League football club.
A graduate of Warwick University (LLB, 1977), he has also been awarded an MA in business law (City Poly, 1982, part-time) and a PhD (also City Poly, 1991, also part-time) for a thesis entitled Law and Competition in the Motor Industry. Among his books is A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law (Edward Elgar, 2011).
Timely recognition of warning signals fosters transparency and accountability within the organization. It encourages open communication between management, stakeholders, shareholders, allowing for informed decision-making and collaborative problem-solving.
Despite the best intentions behind acquisitions and mergers, statistics show that in most cases they are unsuccessful. Why should this be the case?
