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Our mission is to evolve the M&A industry with science

We aim to share qualitative interviews from experienced practitioners. Learn valuable lessons that can be applied to your practice.

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M&A Deals From a Legal Perspective

This Wednesday at 1 PM CT on M&A Science Live, Kison will be talking to Brett Shawn, Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel at Warburg Pincus LLC to discuss how M&A is executed from the legal perspective. They'll be covering minority deals, the different types of risks you are looking for in a deal-and how to mitigate them including COVID-19 related risks.

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The Legal Team’s Role in M&A

In this episode, Andrew shares why the legal team's involvement early in the deal process is important and the different key milestones in a deal they are responsible for. He also talks about the dangers of deal fever, working with corporate development teams, and more.

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Working with the Business Leader to Build an M&A Strategy

Keeping business leaders motivated and accountable for the deal post-close can be a difficult task. Ensure you have very realistic expectations around financial performance and operational goals so that they take the business case seriously. Hear from two industry experts on how you can incentivize business leaders to stay focused and retaining deal value.

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Joint Ventures at Scale

Clayton Stanley, Vice President and Head of Corporate Development at AmeriVet Veterinary Partners, talks about how to make the JV model work on scale and figuring out the right size of the M&A team. Learn about how you can create a joint venture model that is scalable and the prioritization of tasks.

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Evolving To Agile M&A at Scale

This episode of the M&A Science podcast features our friends over at Cisco. In this interview, we talked about evolving to Agile M&A at scale, with Ashley Rice, Sr. Consultant HR M&A at Cisco, and Kimberly Baird, Corporate Development Integration Lead at Cisco.

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Career Paths in M&A

Kison interviews Matt Arsenault, Vice President of Corporate Development at Jamf, about the many career paths you can take in M&A. Learn how to shift career path gears, roles to look for when transitioning, and what the future of a corporate development role may look like.

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Architect your ideal M&A practice

Organizations often have a go-to strategy to grow via M&A that is lacking efficiency. We provide the tools, processes, and people to help you create a science-based approach to capture value

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Agile M&A: Proven Techniques to Close Deals Faster and Maximize Value

“Discover actionable techniques to close more efficient and successful M&A transactions.”

Kison Patel

Founder and CEO of DealRoom

The book, Agile M&A, looks at how Agile, the project management technique that propelled Silicon Valley startups, can be scaled and implemented to improve the entire lifecycle of M&A while increasing value and closing deals faster.

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