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September 14, 2022

How to negotiate an acquisition

If you’re eyeing up a company to acquire and are eager to make the first move, here's some key things to remember.


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Once you've made it clear to a company that you’d like to acquire them, you launch into a negotiation process — essentially, to figure out whether the arrangement will work and if so, how.

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Miriam Partington is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the DACH region and the future of work, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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