ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
M&A Science, hosted by Kison Patel (Founder & CEO of DealRoom), is your go-to podcast for mastering the art of mergers and acquisitions. Each week, Kison and his expert guests from leading brands like Xerox, FastLap, and Cisco dig deep into real-world M&A strategies, offering actionable insights to optimize your M&A practice.
Whether you're an experienced practitioner or new to the field, M&A Science provides practical advice on key topics like sourcing, due diligence, integration, divestitures, and more. With over 300 episodes, this podcast is the premier thought leadership resource designed to streamline your deal-making process.
Start listening today and visit mascience.com/podcast to access over 300 episodes. Brought to you by DealRoom, the leading M&A optimization platform used by the best M&A teams around the world
Whether you're an experienced practitioner or new to the field, M&A Science provides practical advice on key topics like sourcing, due diligence, integration, divestitures, and more. With over 300 episodes, this podcast is the premier thought leadership resource designed to streamline your deal-making process.
Start listening today and visit mascience.com/podcast to access over 300 episodes. Brought to you by DealRoom, the leading M&A optimization platform used by the best M&A teams around the world
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weekly
Average audio length:
50 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
436 episodes
since Feb. 1, 2017
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~83.65% of listeners are from United States.
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Danielle Fortier, partner at Cooley, has closed four corporate carve-outs this year, while most M&A lawyers have been lucky to see one. So, what blows up the timeline and budget almost every time? The vendor contracts nobody mapped out before the LOI.
In this episode, Danielle walks through wh…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Jerry Cedicci never says, "trust me." He builds trust, then lets the deal speak for itself.
This is Part 2 of Kison's conversation with Jerry, The mentor who started with a French bakery and went on to build hundreds of millions in real estate across Chicago and Los Angeles.
Part 1 told the stor…
Twenty years before M&A Science existed, Kison Patel learned how to spot a deal from a real estate developer named Jerry Cedicci. This episode tells Jerry's story: orphaned in France at age 7, he arrived in Chicago in 1981, speaking no English. He would go on to turn a French bakery counter int…
A rollup can look attractive at signing: cash today, equity in a larger platform, and the promise of participating in what gets built next. But sellers rarely spend as much time understanding what sits above that equity, what has to happen before it becomes liquid, or whose economics take priority …
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 people-integration experience across deals …
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 contract slipped during dili…
Richard Chow, Partner at PJT Partners (NYSE: PJT)
Secondary deals are often judged by a single metric: 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 what happens when investors focus …
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 acquisition as an isolated transaction, SS…
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 Binstock, a partner at Cooley with nearly 20 years…
Jennifer Lipschultz, Sr. Director Merger & Acquisition Integration and Corporate Project Management Due diligence covers deal terms, but it doesn't cover what happens once you're running payroll, benefits, and banking in a country you've never operated in before. A legal entity change can lock…
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