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From Starbucks to Walmart, companies are discovering they must provide lifelong learning opportunities to attract and retain the best employees, including millennials.

In today’s M&A landscape, the definition of due diligence must expand beyond conventional financial metrics to include a company’s digital strategy and capabilities strengths and weaknesses as well.

The newly enacted tax act presents asset buyers, both large and small, with a new opportunity to increase post-transaction cash flow via tax savings. This opportunity results from the very generous expansion of an old rule with no prior significant relevance to asset acquisitions: bonus depreciation.

“Anything in the public software space is of interest to us. Anything is fair game,” says CFO Brian Miller. Tyler recently acquired Socrata and Sage Data Security.

Salveo Capital recently backed Flow Kana. Managing partner Jeffrey Howard shares advice about investing in cannabis in this guest article.

Recognizing the problem is the first step, say Accordion's Rishi Jain and Anthony Horvat.

Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR are raising multi-billion funds for Asian acquisitions, much of which they will likely invest in China.

PE firms raising healthcare funds and strategic buyers divesting assets are among the deal drivers in the sector.

Finance should play a leadership role in post-merger integration, rather than just handling follow-up and reporting activities.

Adding or improving a portfolio company’s new product development function can lead to better returns post-transaction.