Midaxo Literature Archive

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A Guide to Selecting the Best Deal Flow Management Software for Your Company

Using outdated, disconnected systems to manage M&A deals automatically puts your company at risk of losing out to competitors. The good news is that you no longer need to take that risk. The level of technology today means that no modern organization has to work with outdated systems. The right M&A software transforms M&A processes, … Read more

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7 Ways a Purpose-Built M&A CRM Can Increase Your Deal Pipeline

You wouldn’t go to your dentist to get a haircut and you wouldn’t ask your auto mechanic to fix your computer. Yet when it comes to mergers and acquisitions, practitioners — especially less experienced ones — often try to cobble together a process using generic tools not specifically designed for M&A. The result, all too … Read more

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4 Ways Technology Can Accelerate Corporate Dealmaking

The benefits of deploying a smart, cloud-based platform with real-time functionality to manage your corporate dealmaking processes are numerous. They include more efficient deal management, faster and more accurate decision-making, increased workflow velocity, and more robust security. The Midaxo software platform helps enterprises find, evaluate, and close deal value. Download this white paper to learn more … Read more

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How to Build a Winning M&A Pipeline

Best Practices for Maximizing Deal Success from an M&A Pipeline A successful M&A pipeline requires a systematic and repeatable approach so potential acquisition targets can be evaluated in line with an organization’s overall strategy. This best practice guide includes:

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Midaxo Deal Scoring Application Note

Leveraging First and Third-Party Data to Focus Deal Pipeline Management Dealmaking teams managing a large deal pipeline often struggle to prioritize and stay focused on the highest value targets. Prioritizing targets based on fit with your deal thesis in a repeatable way can be challenging. The Midaxo Insights and Deal Scoring capabilities can help.

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The Definitive Guide to M&A Pipeline Management

14-Page Guide filled with lessons learned from the best M&A teams in the world. Vetting multiple targets requires a systematic and repeatable approach to efficiently manage both the overall pipeline of opportunities and the deal-making process. The Midaxo M&A software platform helps enterprises find, evaluate, and close deal value. Our M&A Pipeline Management Guide includes:

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M&A Guide to Due Diligence

Get best practices from the top M&A teams in the world. A successful due diligence process should enable an acquirer to answer questions from 3 key areas: Commercial & Strategic Rationale, Risk Reduction, and Deal Execution Technicalities. This best practice guide includes:

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Post-Merger Integration Playbook Excerpt Much More Than a Checklist

Midaxo M&A Playbooks consist of expert-developed best practice guidance, detailed workstream specific task lists and supporting templates. Download a 45-page sample of our Post-Merger Integration playbook to see how you can improve your existing playbook and integration process. Midaxo’s Post-Merger Integration Playbook Covers 4 Core Stages Note: Playbook sample covers the entire Planning section and … Read more

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Acquisition & Due Diligence Playbook Excerpt Much More Than a Checklist

Midaxo M&A Playbooks consist of expert-developed best practice guidance, detailed workstream specific task lists and supporting templates. Download a sample of our Acquisition and Due Diligence playbook to see how you can improve your existing playbook and processes.

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M&A Guide Corporate Venturing

Amplify Venture Target Evaluation and Closing When successful, corporate venturing means incorporation of the freshest technology, models and experience into a setting that may not be otherwise suited to incubate, innovate and pivot as markets demand. The Guide to Corporate Venturing includes:

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Synergies in M&A: A Framework for Value Creation

Value creation is the key driver of M&A for most companies yet over 50% of deals fail to deliver on the promise of value. Refocusing your efforts to understanding value creation levers, estimating value creation potential, formulating a strategy and being aware of critical success factors can set your next acquisition up for success. In … Read more

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Fight M&A Failure with the Three Building Blocks of Change Management

With M&A failures rates soaring, the proficiency in Change Management is a virtual must-have. With a high rate of deal failure attributed to people, culture, and change management, how can you increases your chances of success? When change management principles are people-centric, methodical, and correctly applied, data supports a higher likelihood of the project objectives … Read more

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Best Practice Guide Dashboards & Reports for M&A and Corporate Development

With Midaxo’s collaborative end-to-end platform for M&A, you can have all of this information in one place – every target, task, communication, document, status, notes – and automated reporting To provide you with a more valuable starting point, we worked with M&A experts to put together a collection of best practice dashboards and reports. This … Read more

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Workspaces Application Note

The Secure Solution for Isolating Deal Teams While Enabling Powerful Global Reporting During corporate dealmaking, it is sometimes necessary for compliance, confidentiality, or other business reasons to isolate corporate development teams and their deal flows. In those cases, maintaining security and confidentiality is paramount. One careless click of a mouse could sink a deal or … Read more

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A Checklist for Evaluating M&A Platform Security

Security is paramount for M&A software solutions – your data must remain confidential and safe. This checklist covers the key topics that must be reviewed for any M&A software you might be considering. This 2-page checklist covers:

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Delivering Value: General Real Estate Rationalization

Real Estate Rationalization (RER) is a process to simplify a company’s real estate footprint and match it to strategic and operational demands. The outcomes of a dedicated rationalization program can be significant and include operating and administrative cost savings, the freeing up of capital to redeploy to other initiatives, the optimization of space, and ultimately, … Read more

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The New Focus on Strategic Legal Processes: A Guide for General Counsel and Legal Ops Professionals

World-class legal departments add significant value to strategic corporate processes such as M&A, divestments, legal entity rationalization, IP licensing and real estate. Legal departments are undergoing a transformation where most of the routine legal contracts are moved to be done by the business, using self-service tools and templates, and the legal departments focus on strategic … Read more

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The Ultimate Guide to Smart M&A

Help your organization run a modern M&A process, from deal pipeline management through due diligence to post-merger integration. Market leaders find, evaluate and realize value from their dealmaking faster and with less risk by implementing effective processes and systems. Read this guide to learn how Smart M&A teams are: See how Daimler, HPE, Nokia, and … Read more

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M&A Guide to Post-Merger Integration

Our 62-Page Guide Helps You Deliver Deal Value Post-merger integration (PMI) is a fundamental stage post-acquisition to realizing the value of an M&A deal. It is a highly complex process, usually requiring swift action in unison with the running of core business activities. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to a successful PMI process – however, … Read more

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IT Post-Merger Integration

Successfully Realize Deal Value The Guide to IT Post-Merger Integration includes coverage of 14 key areas including: how to approach IT integration, people, locations, contracts, IT estate (hardware & software), culture & ways of working, security, service, and portfolio management. An overview of IT strategy including sourcing, off-shoring operations and how to approach the capturing … Read more

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