How M&A Turns a Chemical Company Into a Tech Business
Chandradev Mehta, SVP Strategy and Business Development at Hexion Inc.
"You can execute a really strong deal, get a really good price, but unless you integrate that transaction well and create the synergies you built into your thesis, everything else is irrelevant." Chandradev Mehta learned that after 10 years in banking and 10 on the principal side.
At Hexion, he is using M&A to move a commodity chemical business toward a chemistry-as-a-service model. The first step was buying an AI and MarTech company. He explains how he ran the build vs. buy vs. partner analysis and which must-believes he…
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