SXSW EDU 2025
Higher Education M&A
Description:
College and university mergers and acquisitions will continue to accelerate as financial difficulties mount due to shifting demographics in a post-pandemic environment. In the Spring of 2024, a small liberal arts college specializing in performing arts and struggling with liquidity and enrollment issues announced a merger with a multi-national private research university system. Hear from the board chair and president of the acquired institution and their advisors on the transaction on how to prepare for, negotiate, and execute a higher education M&A transaction.
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Takeaways
- An understanding of the changing economic landscape higher education institutions are facing and how M&A can help institutions address them
- How an M&A transaction can help a higher education institution achieve its mission and goals while preserving its history and legacy
- What steps to take to prepare for, negotiate, and execute a higher education M&A transaction
Speakers
- Jenelle Beavers, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
- Naomi May, Special Counsel, Cooley
- Abby Fiorella, Chair - MMC Board of Trustees, Marymount Manhattan College
- Peter Naccarato, President, Marymount Manhattan College
Organizer
Will Cunningham, Director, Alvarez & Marsal
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