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M&A Diaries - S2EP6 - Alan Whitman - How Baker Tilly Grew from $500M to $1.5B

How2Exit

Post-retirement, he advises CEOs, writes, and shares his “strategy-first” philosophy—soon to be published in book form. Small deals can be harder than big ones – Smaller firms often have more emotional barriers to M&A, requiring deeper relationship-building upfront. How you build systems.

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Difficult Roads Lead to Beautiful Destinations: What Buyouts Reveal About Growth

Beyond M&A

At Beyond M&A, we regularly meet leadership teams, especially in buyout scenarios, who are about to experience the full impact of Institutional Investor governance for the first time. Consistency – helps build trust as you scale. A must-read for anyone raising funds or building for exit.

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How activist Elliott could use its data center know-how to amplify returns at Equinix

CNBC: Investing

The firm has been doing a lot more governance-oriented activism and creating value from a board level at a much larger breadth of companies. The high costs associated with building and maintaining in-house data centers combined with fluctuating data needs allows colocation companies like Equinix to thrive.

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Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools

TechCrunch: M&A

Clay’s software, launched in 2021 , is something of a smarter address book or personal CRM, letting users organize the people they know and keep up with their latest updates by pulling in data from services like LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp, and X, as well as address books and calendars.

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Infrastructure Investment Banking: Definitions, Deals, and a Dizzying Diversity of Verticals

Mergers and Inquisitions

However, public finance teams advise only governments, non-profits, and tax-exempt entities not private corporations and the scope of deals and industries is much narrower. Since they are deemed essential services, governments regulate them strictly by setting an allowed or authorized Return on Equity and capital structure.

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Why We Keep Solving the Same Problems… and Secretly Love It

Beyond M&A

The Books That Supported the Conversations Three recommendations stood out — each tackling a different dimension of the leadership puzzle: Boundaries: How to Draw the Line in Your Head and Heart — A reminder that not all demands on your time deserve a “yes,” and that sustainable leadership starts with self-preservation.

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6 of the most exciting tech companies in Edinburgh

Growth Business

What you might not know is that the Scottish government wants to focus on making the country the ‘data capital of Europe’, focusing on improving its digital infrastructure and applying data science to products and services. Appointedd [link] Appointedd is a cloud-based online booking platform for SME and enterprise businesses.