USA: Impending merger or acquisition?
The health of employee benefit programs can be a make-or-break issue.
The day after biotech firm Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) announced a proposed acquisition of pharma company Celgene, news headlines focused on the particulars of the deal, and the potential for the first big acquisition of 2019 to be a catalyst for biotech takeovers in the coming year. The BMS news certainly started the new year off with a bang, continuing a trend from 2018 in which merger and acquisition (M&A) activity was high, with worldwide deals valued at nearly $4 trillion according to the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA).
Contacts
William Strange
Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman
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Email:
William.Strange@milliman.com
Tel: +1 214 863 5056
William Strange
Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman
William is based in the Dallas office of Milliman, where he partners with plan sponsors to design and implement employee benefit plans tailored to their strategic goals.
He has worked in the retirement consulting field since 2007, with prior experience at Buck Consultants and Fidelity Investments. Clients look to William to provide proactive consulting advice on how to mitigate benefit plan risk and leverage plans to achieve workforce planning goals.
His expertise includes actuarial valuations for defined benefit and retiree medical plans, defined benefit and defined contribution design (qualified and nonqualified), optimizing cash balance designs for professional service firms, merger & acquisition due diligence, projections to evaluate future retirement design changes, consultation on Liability Driven Investing strategies to manage pension risk, global accounting consolidation and consultation on plan administration outsourcing alternatives. William has presented at professional conferences and corporate meetings on a variety of employee benefit topics.
Contacts
William Strange
Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman
VIEW PROFILE
Email:
William.Strange@milliman.com
Tel: +1 214 863 5056
William Strange
Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman
William is based in the Dallas office of Milliman, where he partners with plan sponsors to design and implement employee benefit plans tailored to their strategic goals.
He has worked in the retirement consulting field since 2007, with prior experience at Buck Consultants and Fidelity Investments. Clients look to William to provide proactive consulting advice on how to mitigate benefit plan risk and leverage plans to achieve workforce planning goals.
His expertise includes actuarial valuations for defined benefit and retiree medical plans, defined benefit and defined contribution design (qualified and nonqualified), optimizing cash balance designs for professional service firms, merger & acquisition due diligence, projections to evaluate future retirement design changes, consultation on Liability Driven Investing strategies to manage pension risk, global accounting consolidation and consultation on plan administration outsourcing alternatives. William has presented at professional conferences and corporate meetings on a variety of employee benefit topics.