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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Mergers and Inquisitions

Depending on your group , you’ll spend time on tasks such as creating 5-year plans, conducting variance analysis, making sure transactions are properly recorded, reconciling the historical financial statements, and managing the company’s cash, cash flow, and borrowing needs.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Selling a Middle-Market Business

Lake Country Advisors

Middle-market companies tend to have greater complexity in their revenue streams, capital structure, and overall financial management. While not as large as publicly traded corporations, these entities usually have more robust governance and financial reporting than smaller businesses.

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SaaS M&A Due Diligence Checklist: Prepare 6 Areas of Your Business for a Successful Exit

Software Equity Group

The best way to prepare for  due diligence  in a SaaS M&A transaction is to do most of the legwork before it starts. We also provide an in-depth downloadable M&A due diligence checklist (PDF) so that you’re set up for success. SEG has helped software companies successfully go through due diligence for over 30 years.

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Revolutionizing M&A Due Diligence: How AI Tools Enhance Efficiency and Accuracy

JD Supra: Mergers

In the realm of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), due diligence is a critical phase where a buyer’s acquisition team assesses potential risks and opportunities before finalizing the terms of an agreement to purchase its target company. By: Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

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M&A Blog #15 – valuation (tools and data preparation)

Francine Way

To perform this analysis, the following are needed: Target’s financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow): Preferably audited historical statements, cleaned up and re-formatted in Excel properly (we will see an example of this in the next post).

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Creating an M&A Playbook with ChatGPT as Your Consultant

Midaxo

Introduction This article showcases how ChatGPT can serve as an effective M&A consultant by demonstrating how it can be used to help develop a best practices-based M&A playbook. An M&A playbook is a comprehensive framework that guides an organization’s M&A activities from start to finish.

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Anatomy of a Stock Purchase Agreement

The M&A Lawyer

Most private M&A transactions are structured as acquisitions of stock , rather than mergers or asset purchases. The principal agreement governing such a transaction is typically a Stock Purchase Agreement (SPA), sometimes styled a Securities Purchase Agreement or simply a Purchase Agreement. Article 2: The Transaction.

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