Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are considered common practice in the financial industry, but encounter some challenges in the Web3 world.
Author: Karl-Martin Ahrend
Karl-Martin Ahrend is Co-Founder at web3 Studios, an investment banking boutique focused on the crypto space. After stints at Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan, he spent most of his career in the private equity division of asset manager Blackstone. There, he dove into the world of digital assets towards the end and ultimately teamed up with his co-founders to make institutional transactional advice accessible to founders in the web3 space. In the last year, he and his team at w3s have advised on over 10 closed transactions.
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