Kison Patel

Hey, I’m Kison 👋

I started my career in the trenches of M&A, over a decade advising on deals, living through the chaos of spreadsheets, email chains, and last-minute integration scrambles. After seeing too many deals lose value, I knew the process needed a rethink.

That’s why I pioneered Buyer-Led M&A™, a modern, strategy-first approach built to create value from day one and founded DealRoom in 2012 to make it real. Today, 350+ Corp Dev and PE teams use it to run faster, smarter, more collaborative deals.

Along the way, I launched the M&A Science Podcast (2.2M+ downloads, 400+ interviews) to uncover what really works in M&A from the world’s top dealmakers.

Here to share the patterns, stories, and lessons from hundreds of deals, so you can scale your M&A process and make every deal count.