https://dealroom.net/blog/corporate-mergers-and-acquisition-specialist

Corporate M&A specialists are usually the individuals within corporations tasked with overseeing the mergers and acquisitions process.

Often working in tandem with the company’s strategy manager, the corporate M&A specialist focuses on the company’s acquisition strategy - or put another way, the non-organic component of the company’s growth strategy.

DealRoom works on a daily basis with dozens of these individuals, allowing us to glean useful insights into a key position in any corporation’s growth story.

What does a corporate M&A specialist do?

The short answer is - anything concerned with M&A.

This includes everything involved in the M&A cycle, from start to finish:

• Providing input into overall corporate strategy
• Development of acquisition strategy
• Market analysis (is now a good time to acquire? If so, in which industry segments?)
• Development of target longlist
• Development of target shortlist
• Initiating and fielding conversations with third parties (investment bankers, business brokers, third-party companies)
• Engaging with investment bankers (optional) to see if they know of suitable companies for sale or looking to merge
• Developing a market overview (which companies are for sale/likely to arise for sale, what are price levels judging by feedback from the market.
• Maintain an ongoing dialogue with internal teams about the feasibility of different acquisitions from various perspectives (e.g. legal, financial, etc.)
• Providing internal feedback on how the acquisition strategy fits into the overall market as well as the company’s own corporate development strategy.