For the third year in a row, we are publishing the Top 10 annual Axial member-to-member transactions (see 2018 and 2017 here and here). These ten 2019 transactions best reflect the types of business owners, M&A advisors, and diverse capital partners that are privately exploring and executing confidential M&A and…

Is technology in the early innings of fully automating the M&A banker?  Earlier this year, CB Insights put out a 45-page report titled Killing the I-Bank. This topic seems to gain a few attention-grabbing stories each year (see here, here, and here). The CB Insights report details the ways in…

Marc Andreessen, famous entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, famously asserted in 2011 that “software is eating the world.”  More recently, there is a growing chorus of pundits and practitioners talking about the impact of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) across the financial services industry. Some of this has turned out to…