Perfect Your M&A Practice

our mission

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

We’re a community of forward-thinking M&A practitioners on a mission to perfect the M&A practice.

Traditional M&A processes are highly inefficient and antiquated. The industry operates in silos, and everyone has their own approach. Deals fail to deliver anticipated value because important deal processes, such as diligence and integration, are being poorly conducted and without proven techniques for success.

We need a platform to share knowledge and identify proven techniques. Teams execute better when they have a science-based approach to follow.

We’re a community of forward-thinking M&A practitioners on a mission to perfect the M&A practice.

Kison Patel

Kison aims to bring better process solutions to an industry with growing market pressures, transaction values and competition.

Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of DealRoom, a project management software for complex financial transactions. Kison has over a decade of experience as an M&A advisor and developed DealRoom after experiencing first-hand a number of deep-seated, industry-wide inefficiencies and challenges. Through developing technology, educational content and industry trainings, Kison aims to bring better process solutions to an industry with growing market pressures, transaction values and competition.

History

How It All Began

M&A Science is an educational podcast exploring the intricate world of M&A with industry leaders and practitioners. What started in 2013 as research phone calls, transformed into an industry-leading podcast featuring practitioners sharing lessons learned with over 15k listeners. Our listeners include corporate development professionals, private equity, investment bankers, consultants, and tech leaders.

M&A Science comes in three mediums: a traditional podcast, a weekly live roundtable, and most recently, a virtual summit.

Reviews

What are people saying?

Highly recommended for anyone looking to acquire or sell a business. One of the biggest challenges in M&A is the due diligence and integration process... you should listen in so you can make sure you get the value you intended from the deal!

Dave Jacobs

This really helped me up my game in M&A. They interview people that have gone through the most diffucult of deals and share their experience throughout the process while sharing tips on how to further handle similar issues.

Loren Alberto

Great interviews with experts about deal challenges and how they can be overcome. Always looking forward to the next show!

Rodger

OUR BRANDS

M&A Science Recommendations

Agile provides the M&A industry with a dynamic, up-to-date approach to closing deals faster and maximizing value.

Agile M&A enables practitioners to manage the highly-unpredictable M&A process while bringing the industry into the 21st century with the right combination of tools, training and project management methodologies.

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DealRoom is an M&A lifecycle management software designed for collaboration and responsiveness.

Combining project management features with a virtual data room, DealRoom allows you to manage M&A processes in one place. Eliminate data silos, easily collaborate, and have an overall quicker response rate.