Kison Patel is the Founder and CEO of DealRoom, an M&A lifecycle management platform designed for buyer-led M&A and recognized twice on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list.
Platforms like DealRoom help streamline processes, especially in areas such as document analysis, summarization, and early diligence.
AI is transforming M&A by organizing unstructured data, clustering related information, finding patterns in historical deals, and pre-planning integrations based on diligence insights.
Integration remains a challenge in M&A, particularly for aligning organizational cultures, consolidating tech stacks, and achieving synergy targets.
Economic conditions such as interest rates and regulatory dynamics are now starting to ease, leading larger companies to increasingly leverage M&A deals to fuel growth and innovation.
AI helps teams align integration plans early—during diligence, even- to create a blueprint for success, which is reducing the time and cost of executing transactions while improving outcomes.
Payouts based on broader timelines are becoming more common than specific performance metrics and equity rollovers are becoming more widely used in M&A deals as interest rates impact the cost of capital.
By adopting buyer-led M&A principles, companies can build stronger M&A processes that set the company up for successful integration.
The focus on frameworks like buyer-led M&A and leveraging tech-driven insights can make deals more predictable and successful.
M&A consistently achieving goals becomes not just a growth strategy but a cornerstone of innovation.