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The disasters and deal killers that can happen when selling your game company

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SAN FRANCISCO — Game company acquisitions are at an all-time high, but plenty of pitfalls can derail your deal.

Jim Perkins, the director of the merger consulting firm Corum Group, said in a talk at the Casual Connect game conference that selling a company is very complicated and it’s very important for sellers to structure their deals in a favorable way. He offered advice on structuring deals, disasters to avoid, and the most common deal-killers.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.