How Not to Bomb Your First M&A Deal

How Not to Bomb Your First M&A Deal

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How to Finance Acquisitions Without Giving Up Equity

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 transac ...  Show more

Where AI Actually Helps and Fails in M&A Legal Work

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 ...  Show more

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