M&A Club Insights

The M&A Club is proud to announce the launch of its Edmonton chapter, becoming the organization’s 18th chapter across Canada and continuing the Club’s expansion within the Canadian M&A community. The new Edmonton chapter will bring together professionals involved in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance, lending, legal advisory, accounting, valuation, and transaction services through high-quality discussions and curated networking opportunities.

We are pleased to announce that Jennifer McMullan is joining the Ottawa M&A Club chapter as Co-President, alongside Sarwar Qureshi and Pamela Michel.

Big news! The M&A Club is partnering with FML Consultation to build best-in-class strategic partnerships across the mergers & acquisitions ecosystem in Canada.

Florence Morin-Laurin and Khalil Guliwala are joining forces with our team to take this to the next level.

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.