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The Merger of Equals: Leading When the Deal Starts to Look Like a Takeover

For chief executives, chairs and directors of companies merging with a peer. Rescue a deal in trouble: govern power fairly, tell the truth about synergies, keep people and customers, work with regulators and shareholders, and make integration work. Includes a live boardroom simulation.

  • Price₦302,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, chairs, directors, CFOs, people and strategy heads of companies planning or completing a merger with a peer, especially in regulated sectors such as insurance and banking.

What you will learn

  • Understand why mergers of equals fail and where the risk sits
  • Govern the deal fairly, with clear rules for power, roles and decisions
  • Test and communicate synergies honestly
  • Keep key people and build one culture without humiliating either side
  • Hold customers, brokers and partners through uncertainty
  • Work honestly with regulators and shareholders, and respect rules on pre-closing conduct
  • Make the hard decisions, from renegotiating to walking away, and run an integration that works

Course outline

  1. Anatomy of a merger of equals
  2. The first hours: command, facts and the rules of the gap
  3. Governance and power
  4. Synergies and the truth about numbers
  5. People, talent and culture
  6. Customers, brokers and partners
  7. Regulators and shareholders
  8. Hard decisions
  9. Integration that works
  10. Boardroom simulation

What is included

  • 9 lessons On a live whiteboard, with an AI instructor who answers from the lesson and cites its source. Questions can go to faculty.
  • A virtual boardroom simulation Face AI board members in a fictional crisis. Scored against a clear rubric (pass mark 75), checked by a person when it is close, with an appeal.
  • A verifiable certificate A certificate of completion with a QR code, with a public page where anyone can check it is genuine. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.

Level: Boardroom · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days