While it has taken a couple of years to work through the impacts of the pandemic, it seems as though the M&A market has finally turned the corner. Valuation expectations have normalized and odd one-time EBITDA adjustments have run off of a company's historical three-year financial summary, allowing for investors to return to being acquisitive with confidence. After a muted 2022-2024 M&A market, 2025 showed a rebound in transaction volume and aggregate deal value, and dry powd

Photo Credit: Robert Benson Photography The search space continues to evolve and become overly crowded, though not everything is up and to the right in the space. I've been helping searchers for the past four years trying to add a more institutional lens to diligence with KPI insights, finding precedent transactions, building investor presentations and more detailed LBO returns models. Having gone through a rigorous two year investment banking program and deploying over $2.1

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