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New Whitepaper: Trends in Business Services Highly fragmented, slower growth industries like business services tend to be the ripest for consolidation. As an increasing number of…
7 Pipeline Management Tips for Advisors to Close More Deals Sales is a numbers game. Because only a certain percentage of deals close, building out the top of the funnel…
5 Tips to Build a Successful Corporate Development Program For companies looking to grow through acquisition, establishing a corporate development function is a logical first step. We talked to…
3 Simple Questions to Ask Before Every Acquisition In a previous post, we talked to corporate development expert Stenning Schueppert about the two crucial drivers of a successful…
The 2 Drivers of a Successful Inorganic Growth Strategy Stenning Schueppert spent four years as the Senior Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development at Total Safety, an outsourced…
2016 M&A Predictions Revisited (Part 2) Yesterday, we shared six predictions for M&A in the second half of 2016. Read them here. Here are seven more…
2016 M&A Predictions Revisited (Part 1) Back in January, we asked Axial members for their predictions for M&A in 2016. Halfway through the year, we’re looking…