Why Teams Need Living M&A Playbooks: Navigating the Complex Landscape of Corporate Development

Inorganic growth through M&A and corporate development has become an integral strategy for companies seeking innovation and competitive advantage. However, the journey to successful inorganic growth is often riddled with challenges, uncertainties, and complex decision-making processes. To successfully navigate this intricate landscape, teams must embrace the concept of living playbooks — dynamic, adaptable frameworks saved … Read more

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 highest value opportunities. However, by leveraging first- and third-party data with Midaxo Deal Scoring, dealmakers can more efficiently focus their pipeline management, prioritize targets based on their deal thesis, and … Read more

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 excited to shed some light on the topic in our upcoming webinar: “How to Build a Winning M&A Pipeline,” featuring Charles Cautley (CPO) and Vilius Audinis, PhD (Head of Product … Read more

5 Things to Consider When Evaluating Cybersecurity in M&A Vendors

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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 can be simplified by using a dedicated M&A platform. This will help you manage your deal pipeline, disinvestments, post-merger integration process, consulting, legal operation etc. Vendors that adopt such deal-management … Read more

How to Select Deal Flow Management Software

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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

Why Your M&A Process Needs More Than a VDR

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Introduction: Virtual data rooms (VDRs) gained popularity around 2001 and have become an increasingly popular tool for mergers and acquisitions. In fact, every day hundreds of people search for VDRs via the internet. Here is the problem though when it comes to M&A and virtual data rooms: while they have transformed the ability to secure … Read more

Process vs. Project Management in M&A

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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency”.  – Bill Gates. With more technology entering the M&A space, practitioners must proceed with caution and fight the urge … Read more

Midaxo Rated #1 M&A Platform on G2

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Midaxo is proud to announce it is currently the top M&A platform on G2 based on user reviews, outranking M&A platform competitors such as Intralinks, DealRoom, and Ansarada. While at times online reviews can have questionable credibility, G2 prides itself on authenticity — real, timely reviews by actual users; in fact, it is known as “where you … Read more

The Top M&A Software Providers of 2020

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Introduction: While M&A processes have not radically changed over the last few decades, we cannot deny the sweeping rise of M&A software, which has gained popularity due to improved technology and an overwhelming desire for efficiency. What makes shopping for M&A software challenging, however, is these so-called M&A software providers that are actually no more … Read more