M&A Club Insights

How Humans Should Deploy AI to Improve Deal Outcomes

The Fundamental Challenge

Most deal failures are blamed on cultural misalignment or rushed timelines, but the root cause often lies in how information is organized.

In engineering they call this the “context problem”. Systems fail when inputs are incomplete, unstructured, or disconnected. A machine learning model without proper feature engineering produces garbage. A software system without clear dependencies creates cascading failures. An API without documentation becomes unusable.

The M&A Club is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2026 M&A Awards Gala, which will take place on May 13, 2026, at the Windsor in Montréal, marking the 11th edition of this flagship event within Québec’s mergers and acquisitions ecosystem.

This spring, the M&A Club is launching a new initiative designed to foster more meaningful exchanges among professionals in the sector: the M&A Circles. Unlike traditional networking formats, the Circles are built around a more intimate and structured approach, designed to create genuine and lasting professional relationships.

The M&A Club of Canada today announced the launch of a new Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) program, delivered in partnership with McGill University’s Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship—broadening access to acquisition-based entrepreneurship in Canada.

The M&A Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Ben Jones, Partner – Corporate Finance at PwC Canada, as Co-President of the Toronto M&A Club Chapter, alongside Jason Saltzman, Partner at Dentons.

The Repreneuriat Summit 2026, taking place on March 31, is a major event for anyone interested in business succession and transactions in Québec.