Survey of resources and tools used by M&A advisory groups

If you didn't get a chance to participate in this survey yesterday please do so today. When I get at least 25 more responses I will post a summary of the results.

The survey is completely anonymous, only 10 questions in length and takes about 1 minute to complete.

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The purpose of the survey is to get a better idea of what resources are being utilized by M&A groups and determine how varied access to a few key resources is across the industry. This is for my own personal curiosity; I don't work for any of the vendors mentioned in the survey.

I greatly appreciate your participation and look forward to discussing the results on WSO when completed.

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Although I have had a strong response to the survey, I haven't reached the number of responses I was hoping for so I will leave it open for a couple of additional days.

If you haven't participated please do so. And for those that have participated, thank you!

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