Corporate and M&A

Disruptive Innovation For Target Companies in M&A Deals

Author: Mauricio Duarte

Cybersecurity and data-protection in M&A using Blockchain

As the digital environment continues to grow rapidly, it is time to acknowledge that in any effort to complete a successful M&A transaction, privacy and data security due diligence of the target company is needed. In a world hurtling through one technological breakthrough after another, we are entering into an exciting-yet dangerous-new era. Privacy and data security, once overlooked in many corporate transactions, is now taking center stage. The increasing wave of cyberattacks, without appropriate safeguards, has caused governments around the globe to scramble for new ways to secure records and data from theft, damage or alteration. Nevertheless, there is one exceptional enhanced form of technology, known as “blockchain”, that might be useful to secure data from the target company before any type of merger or acquisition.

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