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NKP | M&A Insights was created by a former private equity investment professional to ensure that private market capital is ultimately deployed towards the best opportunities in an efficient manner.
We all come from a financial background and employ a data-driven approach, which in turn powers and informs our primary research, enabling us to provide clients with a holistic understanding of the "here and now" as well as the longer term pipeline and market movements.
While keeping track of what transacted in the past and how is certainly important, our primary focus is on helping clients predict what is going to happen in the future thereby giving them a very tangible edge, we do this by engaging directly with asset owners and by constantly picking up bits and pieces of information - we call it "laying the research puzzle".
Our guiding principle across all our research and datasets is simple: what would the investment professional really like to know in this particular situation? Those are the information blocks we focus on capturing and presenting in an actionable investor-centric format.
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We strongly believe in the value of being independent of the information that we process, and not have any "stake" in a transaction or target company - that is why our sole revenue source is fixed subscription payments from professional investment- and advisory firms, and we don't charge any fees or impose any commitments from companies we write about.
We would be lying if we said we weren't focused on growing our business, and we believe this comes from a combination of continuous product enhancements, and keeping end-users in focus - this is reflected is in the confidential dialogue and sparring we offer as an integrated part of the service as well as flexibility in facilitating introductions.
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We believe in the value of going deep in individual regional markets and the mutually beneficial network effects this brings, rather than trying to conquer the World in one day - that is why we focus on deeply penetrating select M&A markets (Nordics and DACH).
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Answers to questions you might have about M&A Insights from NKP.
Established in 2018 by a former private equity investment manager, NKP | M&A Insights is an independent and highly specialized information services provider to investors and advisory firms which are active in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market.
Our fast growing client base spans the entire M&A ecosystem, including private equity funds, direct lenders, investment banks, corporate finance boutiques, law firms, auditing firms, strategy consultancies, and transaction insurance providers to name a few.
The frequency, quality, and timing of cases and opportunities covered is of a different order of magnitude. Expect 5-10x as many cases covered based on non-public sources (for the markets we cover) across size tiers and sectors, and covering each case at a much earlier (pre-process) stage. Our DNA is also significantly different - our team is comprised of people with financial backgrounds (not journalists) and our company was founded by a former private equity investment manager. This is reflected in our systematic, proactive, and data-driven research model.
We believe in network effects and focus exclusively on the Nordic and DACH markets (in terms of target headquarter), however our coverage includes assets owned/acquired/sold by investors and shareholders residing outside of these two regions. We are industry-agnostic (as many of our clients are) and focus on transactions from the growth equity space and up. Our integrated Stocks tool, tailored for M&A use-cases, covers global tickers (more than 20,000 companies).
We source information from a combination of publicly available and non-public sources, with a large share of our proprietary (non-public) intelligence coming from asset owners, who see the value in having their company profiled in M&A Insights - a discreet low-risk channel for generating qualified awareness among top investors and company buyers, while remaining anonymous.
Our business model is 100% subscription driven with clients paying a fixed annual fee for access to the platform, the email newsletter, and the other integrated services surrounding M&A Insights. We do not get any fees or referral income from connecting investors with company owners, or from writing about specific companies and events. This way we remain entirely independent and can focus on what we do best - creating visibility in unlisted markets to ensure that capital is ultimately deployed in the most efficient way.
We all work out of our offices in Hellerup, Capital Region, in Denmark. Our team is comprised of native Nordic language speakers and native German speakers, alongside tech and support staff. If you are in the vicinity of our offices and want to get to know us better please reach out, we would be happy to have coffee.
If you receive any of our daily newsletters in your email inbox it means that your have an active subscription (access) and a personal login - you can retrieve this by going to app.mainsights.io and go through the "Reset password" steps from the login screen (remember to check your spam folder for any email from support@mainsights.io), alternatively please email sg@mainsights.io and we will set it up for you. If you don't know if/if not your company has a subscription please contact us at support@mainsights.io as we will tell you about potential next steps.
You can reset your password by going to app.mainsights.io and go through the "Reset password" steps from the login screen (remember to check your spam folder for any email from support@mainsights.io), alternatively please email sg@mainsights.io and we will set it up for you. Make sure that the domain @mainsights.io is "whitelisted" by your email service provider (ask your IT team to confirm if needed).
NKP | M&A Insights is a "subscription only" solution, with subscription options (and price) varying according to team size and the scope of coverage that you are interested in. We may be able to offer a (free) trial upon request.
M&A Insights is delivered as both a web app (accessible through your browser at app.mainsights.io) and as a native mobile (iOS) app that can be downloaded from the Apple app store. Both the mobile app and the web app contain the same underlying information and datasets, only the user interfaces and functionality differ.
You can contact us anonymously through the contact form found on the "Contact" page or you can send us an email on research@mainsights.io. If you send us an email we will not disclose where we got the information from unless you want us to.,
Email us at advisors@mainsights.io and we will typically respond with a confirmation within 24-48 hours. You can attach a spreadsheet with the relevant information (your role and function, i.e. "Corporate Finance Sell-Side", target name, target country, deal value if available etc.).
The target or the activities sold must be headquartered in either Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, or Austria. The deal value and/or implied enterprise value must be EUR 15m or larger for majority and minority sales. We track both legal- and corporate finance advisory roles both sell-side and buy-side.