Earlier this month, I was on an international consultants’ panel discussion on all things Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). We talked about a wide range of interesting and challenging topics over the hour long session in San Diego, but for me the point that stuck out was around mergers and acquisitions (M&A). For too long, FDI consultants and Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) have been guilty (myself included), of not paying the level of attention to M&A that it surely