Culture as a Success Factor in International M&A Dispute Processes

Abstract

Seasoned businesspeople, especially those engaged in international mergers and acquisitions (M&A), are keenly aware of the fact that no matter how pleasant their pre-arrangement business courtship has been, disputes, either pre or post closing, may, indeed, occur. Some disputes may be benign and settled amicably by the parties. Other disputes, however, provide the parties with only an unsated resolution due to prolonged and costly litigation having been entered into subsequent to the parties’ inability to peacefully resolve their international commercial dispute. If businesspeople, caught up in the euphoria of “making a deal,” fail to provide for amicable dispute resolution, then litigation, prolonged and costly, might become the only solution available, regardless of how distasteful.