We call this the ‘optimal deal ecosystem’ where everything we do is designed to produce interconnecting benefit flows to lead to concrete deliverables which together lead to capturing the best target company at the best price.  Few firms connect their actions throughout the M&A process to deliverables that feed into goals in this scientific way.  As practitioners of ‘advocacy M&A’, there is nothing we do that has not been reverse-engineered to result in our acquirer client’s advantage.