AI Is Re-wiring M&A
Navigate It with Clarity and Confidence.
The M&A Innovation Council is the first global membership community for M&A and Corp Dev teams navigating the AI transformation .
The state of play.
Here is the uncomfortable truth about AI in M&A: everyone is talking about it, almost everyone is experimenting with it, and almost nobody is confident they are doing it right. The transition is moving faster than most organisations have a framework for. Not because M&A teams are behind.
Built differently.
With purpose.
The Council is built on a single conviction: the next decade of dealmaking will be defined by the M&A and corporate-development teams that master the intersection of artificial intelligence, technology, and transaction strategy.
Everyone is talking about AI in M&A. Almost everyone is experimenting with it. Almost nobody is confident they are doing it right.
The Two lenses of MAIC
Institutional / Strategic
Membership gives your organisation a clear and current picture of where AI fits into the deal — what to build, what to adopt, and what to leave alone. A live, peer-benchmarked view of how M&A and Corp Dev teams are structuring their AI capability, which tech stack decisions are working, and what the roadmap to genuine competitive advantage actually looks like.
Personal / Operational
And then there is the deal itself. The prompts running in live deal environments. The code removing hours of manual work from the analysis. Configurations, tool setups, and workflows built and tested by peers doing exactly what you do — then shared so everyone starts from a higher floor. Collective intelligence that compounds with every member who contributes.
Our Programs
IGNITE — Quarterly Conference
Quarterly · Full Day · In Person
Once a quarter, M&A and Corp Dev teams convene for a full day around a single deal stage and a single question: what does genuine AI elevation of this process actually look like — and what would it take to build it? Every idea gets stress-tested by the people running these processes live.
IMPACT LAB — Monthly Breakfast
Monthly · Breakfast · In Person
Before the day claims your attention, there is a window. Impact Lab is built inside it. Once a month, a deliberately small group convenes around one discipline — not to understand what is possible, but to build the case for it. The room is small because trust requires it.
PULSE — Monthly Online Session
Monthly · 1 hour · Online
Once a month, for one hour, M&A and Corp Dev teams bring what they’re actually running — the prompts, the workflows, the tool configurations tested in live deal environments — and put them in front of the room. One member opens with a live demonstration. The room sharpens it.
SIGNAL — Monthly Newsletter
Monthly · Digital · Free to subscribers
The Council’s monthly intelligence dispatch. The distillation of member and partner conversations — the patterns, the provocation, and the intelligence that sits just ahead of where the consensus is heading. M&A specific, always. The kind of read that does not merely inform — it prompts.
What We're Building Next
We are building the infrastructure for in-house M&A teams operating in AI transition.
The Toolkit
Two proprietary tools, built for the work itself.
Local Chapters
In-person Council gatherings across NYC, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Dubai and Hong Kong.
The Council Prompt Library
A peer-built, member-curated vault of prompts, frameworks and workflows already in use inside in-house M&A teams.
What Membership Includes
Full membership includes: Ignite · Impact Lab · Pulse · Signal
Membership Investment
£1,200 billed monthly
Membership opens September 2026. Invitations are issued to confirmed requests first.
£995
per year
Who it’s for
The world's most acquisitive companies. The corporates running programmatic M&A. The deal teams compounding output through AI.
M&A and Corp Dev Teams
Running the deals.
Head of Legal, M&A
You make the deal work in the real world.
Next-Generation M&A Operators
Driving their team's AI shift. And their own career with it.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Baseline: Where Does Your
Team Actually Stand?
Not where you think you are with AI — where you actually are. The founding cohort benchmarks capability, identifies the three highest-leverage intervention points, and leaves with the internal case to act on them.
London · 08:30 — 11:00