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Introducing Midaxo VDR+ for End-to-End M&A Deal Making

Manage every aspect of your M&A deal in one secure, cloud-based environment Midaxo was designed with one goal in mind – to improve M&A efficiency …

Building Strength in M&A: The Fundamentals of M&A Pipeline Management

Managing an M&A pipeline befitting of today’s deal environment is increasingly becoming a juggling act of speed – while at the same time, requiring active …
How to Become Divestment-Ready

Are You Divestment-Ready? How to Prepare for a Divestment

Divestment Strategy Is Key to an Efficient and Successful Sale Many companies are proficient in the acquisition process – with skills and capabilities to match. …
Closing Deals in a Virtual World

Closing Deals in a Virtual World

In a recent webinar with Sami Miettinen, Partner, Translink Corporate Finance, we discussed closing deals in a virtual world. Here are some key themes. It’s a Buyer’s Market Now Amid …
Due Diligence Checklists

M&A Due Diligence Checklists: Be Confident That You’re Asking the Right Questions

Get a comprehensive overview of how you should approach M&A due diligence and where to focus your efforts. With such high stakes, there is no …
Completing Overdue Integrations

M&A Spring Cleaning: Completing Overdue Integrations

Uncaptured Synergies from the Past Acquisitions During the economic expansion over the past 10+ years, many of our clients embarked on an ambitious spree of …
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Running your ISMS in Midaxo

Midaxo has always taken information security seriously as we understand how crucial it is for our customers to keep their data safe. We have a …
Rationalization of Your Real Estate Footprint

Why It Might be Time to Rationalize Your Real Estate Footprint

Serviced offices are no longer the preserve of start-ups. Personal banking can be managed via a smartphone from the beach. The weekly grocery shop – …
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Better M&A Culture: End-To-End Accountability & Breaking the Silos

Silo mentality occurs when individuals/teams/departments do not coordinate their activities with other parts of an organization. With this mindset, it can be hard for individuals/teams/departments …
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Incorporating Synergy Planning into the M&A Due Diligence Process

Note: There is a link to the live Synergy Planner at the end of this page. M&A due diligence has traditionally focused on skimming through countless …
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Moving Beyond VDRs: 7 Advantages

Traditional due diligence – which relies heavily on static questionnaires, with an expanse of disconnected documents hosted in a separate virtual data room (VDR) – …
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7 Reasons to Adopt Automated Reporting and Best Practice Templates

Traditional M&A reporting – on your pipeline, on the progress of acquisitions, or on the status of integrations – is typically tedious and time-consuming. The …
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10 Steps to a More Successful M&A Due Diligence Process

The M&A due diligence process has (thankfully) moved well beyond physical data rooms and floor to ceiling stacks of folders. The new normal for an …
6 Considerations When Choosing M&A Software Solution

Six Considerations When Choosing an M&A Software Solution

The M&A software market is relatively new to the B2B technology landscape. Consequently, it can be difficult to have a firm grasp on the questions …
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3 Divestment Strategy Frameworks to Align Portfolios

Since the year 2000, 52% of the Fortune 500 companies have disappeared from the rankings – largely as a result of digital disruption. Now – more than …
Corporate Development & Post-Deal Implementation

Corporate Development & Post-Deal Implementation

Not too long ago, corporate development departments were focused almost exclusively on acquisitions. Now, these teams run a whole spectrum of deal types including corporate …
6 Reasons to Transition to Automated Task Reporting

6 Reasons to Transition to Automated Task Reporting

Reporting across multiple projects for routine (or ad hoc) status reports is typically characterized as a draining manual process – where a vast PowerPoint of jumbled …
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7 M&A Pipeline Metrics You Should Be Tracking

Intro: Tracking pipeline metrics goes a long way to providing a constant health check of M&A and corporate development initiatives. Doing so can provide valuable …
5 Reasons Why You Need to Automate M&A Reporting

5 Reasons Why You Need to Automate M&A Reporting

M&A reporting has traditionally been characterized by a manual process, whereby deal teams collate reams of data and work it into a static PowerPoint report – …
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Establish a Winning M&A Process: Start with the Basics

In looking to establish an M&A process, it’s important to start with the basics and add detail gradually. A common mistake is to “copy & …
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What You Need to Know About SaaS Due Diligence

Slack is worth over $5 billion. Shopify, $10 billion. LinkedIn was acquired for $26 billion and Salesforce is nearing $100 billion in market cap. The …

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