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Anand: WNS's initial acquisition draft mandated clawbacks for key employee departures
“And the, when we saw the shareholders, the first draft that came from, they was Shardola Merchant, WNS. We kind of had a heart attack, right? Because they had things like, you know, if somebody leaves, then they'll have a claw back and so on. They had identifi…”
Anand: ValueEdge sold for $20M with $17.5M cash and RSUs
“It was a twenty million dollar exit with, you know, 17.5 million cash upfront and then the balance in RSUs and all the cash 70% was you know, paid on day one and the 30% was paid over three years.”
Founders Should Negotiate Acquirer Stock to Capture Post-Deal Upside
“One of the learnings that I could have, and that was again, hindsight was that maybe part of the payment could be made in cash or part of the payment could have been made in you know, more like a stock component, which comes upfront. That allows us to also par…”
Anand: WNS acquired ValueEdge for life sciences capability, not revenue
“They were not acquiring us for the revenue, right? I think they were acquiring us for the capability in life sciences. They had a large life sciences practice with one client with, they had like seven, 800 people with that one client where they had built an ou…”