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Unlocking Deal Success: Introducing the Midaxo Value Tracker
Tracking the progress of your deals to your initiatives and KPIs increases the likelihood that they achieve their projected value. M&A transactions involve complex processes, …
Streamlining Your M&A Pipeline with Midaxo Deal Scoring
Managing a large pipeline of potential deals can be a daunting task. Deal teams often struggle to prioritize targets effectively and stay focused on the …
Midaxo Workspaces Help Teams Isolate Deal Pipelines While Sharing Best Practices
Introduction Corporate dealmaking often requires the isolation of corporate development teams and their deal flows for compliance, confidentiality, and other business reasons. Ensuring security and …
How AI Can Enhance M&A Deal Sourcing
Introduction: M&A deal sourcing is one of the most obvious and intriguing application areas that can be improved with AI tools such as ChatGPT. Corporate …
The Challenges and Benefits of Acquiring Smaller Companies
Introduction: Acquiring smaller companies has become a widely used strategy for organizations to expand their market presence and increase their competitiveness. While high-profile acquisitions often …
The Key to a Winning M&A Pipeline
Introduction The landscape of M&A is undergoing significant changes, driven by evolving market dynamics and technological advancements. The traditional approach of large, one-off deals is …
Creating an M&A Playbook with ChatGPT as Your Consultant
Introduction This article showcases how ChatGPT can serve as an effective M&A consultant by demonstrating how it can be used to help develop a best …
7 Key Takeaways from the Transaction Advisors Institute M&A Conference in San Francisco
In March 2023, the Transaction Advisors Institute (TAI) held their annual San Francisco conference for corporate development and M&A. We were excited to partner with …
How Will ChatGPT Change M&A?
The introduction of ChatGPT and GPT-4 marks a significant transformation in the way all types of ‘knowledge work’, including M&A and corporate development, will be …
Learn How to Improve Your M&A Pipeline: Insights and Best Practices
Optimizing your M&A pipeline process to source the best targets can be a daunting task, especially if you lack the latest tools and strategies. We’re …
A Comparison of Buy-Side and Sell-Side Virtual Deal Rooms
Intro: When it comes to confidential data transfers for M&A and other types of corporate dealmaking, virtual data rooms (VDRs) have become an invaluable tool …
Deal Thesis: A Single Deal? Or the Entire M&A Program?
Intro: The focus on outcomes in M&A and corporate dealmaking highlights the importance of a robust deal thesis, also known as an investment thesis. As …
4 Ways an M&A Platform Can Enable Efficient, Collaborative Due Diligence
Introduction: Playbooks, virtual data rooms, and project management platforms all address the never ending quest to ease the overwhelming and disjointed nature of due diligence. …
7+ M&A Pipeline Metrics You Should Be Tracking Part 2
Introduction: Streamlining and assessing your pipeline management is non-negotiable if you are a serial acquirer or serious about leveraging M&A for growth or value creation. …
Developing a Systematic & Repeatable M&A Process: From Strategy to Acquisition Management
Portions of this post were originally published in 2019 and have been updated to include more in-depth and up-to-date information. The most successful acquirers in …
Doing Multiple Deals a Year: The Case for M&A Pipeline Software
Undoubtedly, leveraging M&A activity can bring unprecedented value to companies. More specifically, frequent buyers (sometimes referred to as serial acquirers) — no matter their size …
Cybersecurity Due Diligence in M&A Transactions
Introduction Each year the financial consequence of data breaches creeps higher and higher. On average in 2021, a data breach cost a company $4.24 million, …
M&A Target Scoring Best Practices & Current Trends
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 …
5 Things to Consider When Evaluating Cybersecurity in M&A Vendors
With increased cyber threats, cybersecurity due diligence in M&A transactions is a must for companies, protecting them from reputational and financial risks. Cybersecurity due diligence …
How to Select Deal Flow Management Software
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 …
Expert Insights: M&A Strategies for Frequent Acquirers
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 …
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