About the authors

Denzil Rankine is chief executive of AMR International, which he founded in 1991. He has grown the business to become a world leading market and strategic due diligence specialist, based in London, Frankfurt and New York.

Denzil has 20 years’ experience of advising companies on acquisitions and strategic development. After his early career in the USA he has worked on many hundreds of acquisition programmes with European and American acquirers.

Denzil has advised on agreed and hostile acquisitions and private equity transactions with values ranging up to $2 billion. This work has taken him to 33 different countries.

Denzil is the author of four M&A related books: A Practical Guide to Acquisitions (Wiley), Commercial Due Diligence ...

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