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M&A – its all about the timing. In an exclusive interview, we speak to Steve Lucas, Finance Director of National Grid, who presided over two acquisitions within a single month last year - snapping up Rhode Island Gas for almost $600m and KeySpan for $12bn.
In the first interview outside of his native Germany, we also learn how Lothar Steinebach, CFO of Henkel KgaA, kept his nerve during the recent €4bn acquisition of ICI subsidiary National Starch. Steinebach is quick to point out that post-merger integration is where the really hard work starts.
We also interview John Hele, CFO, ING Group, on how the bank has re-ordered its management structure in order to better address the new risk climate. Suresh C. Senapaty, EVP, Finance and CFO of Wipro Limited discusses the changing role of the CFO and the finance function, and Roy Waight, EVP for the Finance Functional Plan, Shell, explains the benefits in regional shared service centres.