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M&A Due Diligence Checklist: Definition, Examples, and Usag...

Successful due diligence ensures a win-win deal for both M&A parties. It helps the buy-side dive deep into sellers’ financial and legal records while making sure the sell-side ...

M&A Firm Market Overview: Roles, Advantages, and Top Player...

The role of M&A advisory firms M&A advisory firms have become a crucial part of the global economy. At first glance, a financial advisory firm is simply a conductor element ...

Synergy Concept: Types of Synergies, Reasons, and Examples

Synergies are an integral part of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions when the seller seeks beneficial offers from strategic buyers and private equity firms. What are ...

5 Deals That Indicate SaaS Could Be the Next Big M&A Target

“Software is eating the world,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote in a 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed. Nearly 10 years later, it appears that software may be eating ...

22 Advisory Firms Shaping Biotech Mergers

2019 is on track to be a record year for biotech mergers and acquisitions. This year, Big Pharma is up against a number of roadblocks, like pricing constraints and expiring patents. ...

Mergers and Takeovers in Europe

It may only be March, but 2017 has already been characterized by the M&A deals that didn’t happen. Headlines have been dominated by the highly publicized failed merger between the ...

Marketo Acquisition Is Complete – What Now?

For the past decade, Marketo has been the go-to software for marketing professionals, helping to revolutionize the world of digital marketing through products such as Marketo Revenue ...

The 5 Best Methods of M&A Financing

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the consolidation of two companies through various types of financial transactions. M&As have numerous advantages — they help businesses ...

How to Survive a Hostile Takeover

What is a hostile takeover? According to Investopedia, companies are usually bought through formal agreements between boards of directors of both companies - ...

If the Biggest Corporate Mergers Were Ever Done on Data Room

You only have to be an occasional follower of financial news to know that 2015 was a record-breaking year for M&A, with a total deal volume above $5 trillion and 69 ...