M&A Leadership Council Announces Partnership with Midaxo

The partnership recognizes the role of technology in M&A.
Submitted by the M&A Leadership Council

DALLAS, TX. December 18, 2017—The M&A Leadership Council announced today a new partnership with Midaxo, the global leader in mergers and acquisitions software. The partnership highlights the Council and Midaxo’s shared commitment to fostering professional growth for the M&A community. The M&A Leadership Council is a consortium of professional services firms, authors experts and luminaries in the M&A business dedicated to identifying best practices; establishing standards for training and certification; and providing methods, tools and expertise to companies doing mergers and acquisitions.

"The thought leader in corporate development education, the M&A Leadership Council has trained a generation of M&A professionals with the modern and practical way of running M&A. We at Midaxo are excited to support M&A Council’s important efforts,” said Ari Salonen, CEO of Midaxo. “Practitioners win when M&A best practices are combined with the world-class M&A software to execute them: better deals, lower risk and faster synergies.”

Midaxo’s cloud software helps acquirers succeed in M&A by driving a systematic, collaborative process from target identification through integration. The company has frequently been recognized for its industry leadership; Salonen was recently nominated for the Finance Monthly 2017 CEO Awards, and Co-Founder Kalle Kilpi was nominated for the AM&AA’s 2016 Middle Market Thought Leader of the Year Award. Now the Midaxo team will also share their deep expertise at two Council training programs, The Art of M&A Integration and The Art of M&A Program Management.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Midaxo to the M&A Leadership Council,” said Jim Jeffries, chair of the M&A Leadership Council. “The Council has the responsibility to endorse exceptional tools for M&A. At this moment, Midaxo is a clear leader. The Midaxo team brings exceptional insights and resources to its software to enable tracking, monitoring and measuring all the actions, issues and workflow in mergers and acquisitions.”

About the M&A Leadership Council

The Council has trained and advised hundreds of companies in a series of public training courses and management briefing on the art of M&A around various topics dealing with strategy and readiness, due diligence, integration and optimization. More than 2,500 M&A executives have attended theCouncil's training. The Council also provides proprietary tactical tools and in-house training to companies desiring more successful mergers and acquisitions. Learn more.

About Midaxo

Midaxo is a secure and easy-to-use cloud platform to drive modern M&A and corporate development.  With digital playbooks, Midaxo’s customers institutionalize transparent and disciplined end-to-end deal execution, shortening their diligence and post-merger integration times significantly.  Midaxo is proud to serve 150 customers, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Philips. Learn more.