M&A Science

Integration problems often get blamed on culture after close. The real issue may have started earlier, when leaders were never given enough clarity on how to operate inside the new company. Kim Jones is an HR Director of M&A with more than a decade of peo...

Praveen Ghanta, Founder and CEO of DevHawk

Signing the LOI can feel like you've won. For the seller, it may actually be the moment when the balance of power starts moving the other way.

Praveen Ghanta learned that firsthand while selling HiddenLevers. A key enterprise c...

Richard Chow, Partner at PJT Partners (NYSE: PJT)

Secondary deals are often judged by one number: the discount. Richard Chow thinks that's the wrong place to start.

After spending most of his career investing in and advising on secondaries, Richard has seen...

Bill Stone, Founder and CEO of SS&C

How do you keep buying companies without eventually losing control of the company you built?

SS&C Technologies founder and CEO Bill Stone has spent four decades avoiding exactly that. Rather than treating each ac...

Aaron Binstock, Partner, Co-Head of Private Equity Practice at Cooley LLP

AI can now draft, review, and benchmark deal documents in a fraction of the time it used to take, but knowing when to trust the output is a different skill entirely.

Aaron Binsto...