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Discover how FirmRoom helped Thermology Health, a pioneering spin-out from the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), overcome fundraising challenges with ease and efficiency.

A business acquisition plan is an important component of planning for an M&A transaction, regardless of whether you require external financing. A solid business acquisition plan should lay out the rationale for the investment, and how it will add value for the entity.

Mergers and acquisitions may drive much of the corporate finance agenda, but at their core, they are strategic transactions. In this article, DealRoom seeks to unveil their huge strategic significance to the corporate agenda, and to understand how technology is driving a better understanding of M&A.

Weighing out all of the options with all of the different features and pricing plans can be challenging. We have compiled a comprehensive comparison between two of the most popular virtual data rooms, Datasite and Intralinks. 

This article should convince anybody of the necessity of moving from traditional tools (by which we mean Excel, Email, and CRM) to a more sophisticated way of getting M&A transactions done (project management and other collaboration tools).

M&A is a process fraught with challenges that repeat themselves in different guises. By applying a highly structured, yet rigid and unadaptive approach like traditional project management, practitioners simply cannot answer the challenges posed by complex M&A projects.

A due diligence report is a comprehensive document that communicates the findings of a due diligence process, highlighting the most important issues uncovered by the process.

Private equity deals are structured to ensure that the General Partner (GP) has paid a price that enables them to generate the required returns through financial, operational, and strategic decisions.

Without thorough due diligence, complex transactions are a lottery. With due diligence, they have the potential to generate massive value. Moving from a lottery to a massive generator of value is a choice that sensible actors should require no convincing on.

In this comparison, we dive deep into the differences, comparing everything from user-friendly interfaces and innovative features to pricing and customer support.

Datasite has been a popular option virtual data room provider in the past, but should it still be? There are many aspects where Datasite seems to fall short in keeping up with applicable pricing plans, newer and better features, and overall functionality of other VDRs.

M&A investment banks play a crucial role in helping their clients by utilizing their networks to identify potential acquisition targets or buyers. This is a list of the top M&A investment banks for 2023.