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Sam Delestienne won at $15M below the highest bid. Five corp dev leaders tell us what closes deals when process runs out.

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Jörgen Wigh explains the Nordic serial acquirer model: governance, 10% failure rate targets, cross-border friction, and what it takes to build from scratch.

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Jörgen Wigh built a billion-dollar M&A company with 85 acquisitions and zero exits. Learn how to maintain pricing discipline, operate autonomous companies, and compound without traditional integration.

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Integration leaders from Intel, Coursera, Ansys, and UKG debate what tools and workflows deliver real value in M&A integration (and what just creates expensive noise).

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Keith Levy spent 30 years inside strategic acquirers and growth equity. Here's what it actually takes to build a consumer brand a strategic will buy. Part 2 of 2.

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Keith Levy backed an exit of just under $1B and a $400M exit using the same five-pillar framework. Here's how he evaluates a consumer brand before writing a check. Part 1 of 2.

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Dan Caruso on the IRR framework that replaced budgets at Zayo, the negotiation tactics behind 45+ deals, and how he engineered a competing bid when buyers tried to retrade at the finish line.

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Dan Caruso built Zayo from zero to a $14B sale. Here's how he sourced deals, integrated fast, and measured what actually mattered.

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Rodrigo Dominguez Sotomayor of White & Case breaks down what actually drives deal success in Latin America — from regulatory traps to cultural dynamics most buyers miss.

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Chrissy Cox of Booz Allen Hamilton on building proprietary deal pipeline through partnerships, testing culture before LOI, and why the best deals start years before the process does.

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Mauro Sambati and Donato Romano of Gianni & Origoni break down Golden Power, Italian labor law, and the cultural dynamics that make or break cross-border deals in Italy.

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Learn board-level guardrails for high-volume acquisitions (and why roll-ups fail when teams under-estimate people + integration risk.)

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After 400 episodes and nearly 100 founding members, Kison wanted to give you a real update - where M&A Science has been, what we're building, and where this is going.

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Christian Hassold, SVP at Wpromote x Giant Spoon, reveals the culture red flags founders overlook in M&A—and why culture fit should stop deals dead in their tracks.

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Donara Jaghinyan breaks down integration debt, change management frameworks, and cross-border cultural challenges that derail M&A deals post-close.

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Donara Jaghinyan reveals why M&A integrations fail—from TSA pitfalls to carve-out complexity. Learn how IMOs manage dependencies, day-one readiness, and cross-functional execution.

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Andy Cohen, VP of Corporate Development at F5, shares 30 years of M&A wisdom: why reputation matters more than winning, and how relationships drive 60+ successful deals.

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Sharon Van Zeeland, VP at Rockwell Automation, shares how to systematically assess culture during M&A and sync integration planning with diligence for faster value creation.