Midaxo Communications Team 
This post was originally published in November 2021 and updated in August 2022 to include up-to-date information. Introduction Companies engaged in the world of M&A need to be focused in their intent and execution of deals if they are to realize maximum value from deals. How best to do this? First, an overarching strategy must … Read more
Properly leveraging M&A software is one of the foundational elements of building internal M&A capabilities and extracting deal value, but with so many offerings on the market, the process of selecting the best one has become cumbersome. Unfortunately, the price of choosing the wrong deal management software is quite high. According to Bain & Company, current key trends … Read more
Introduction: Located in North Carolina, CREO, Inc. is an innovative management consulting firm that provides expertise throughout the M&A process to companies engaging in inorganic growth. CREO is led by Susan Acker-Walsh, who is both co-founder and CEO. Acker-Walsh herself boasts a 35 year background in Corporate Development, leadership, and transactions related work. Though the … Read more
In a recent blog post, we covered current trends and best practices for target scoring (a.k.a. deal scoring) — the process that provides programmatic serial acquirers with a methodical way to manage their pipeline of opportunities and rate potential targets against custom criteria. Corporate development teams need to constantly organize opportunities, sorting by deal hypothesis and using … Read more
Staying informed about the CorpDev and M&A world can be a bit overwhelming, but podcasts are a great and convenient way to keep up-to-date. Below, we’ve gathered a list of those podcasts that look at the dealmaking process and offer valuable advice and insights for anyone who has an interest in M&A.
Traditional due diligence – which relies heavily on static questionnaires, with an expanse of disconnected documents hosted in a separate virtual data room (VDR) – presents an abundance of inefficiencies. For starters, the acquiring entity runs the risk of having to spend significant resources organizing the data before engaging in analysis that would yield the … Read more