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Singapore · London · Tokyo · New York Today, Novara Advisory Partners opens its doors in Singapore, London, Tokyo and New York as a fully integrated global strategic advisory firm: investment banking, strategy advisory and legal counsel under one roof, with AI built into the architecture rather than bolted on top of it. Most clients know the alternative all too well. A deal needs a banker to run the process, a strategist to stress-test the thesis, and a lawyer to structure an

By Marcus Wolter The hardest part of exit preparation is rarely the work itself. It is understanding what the work is actually for and that question drives everything downstream: timing, deal structure, and the specific preparation required. Founders who skip it often spend years, and considerable advisory fees, optimizing for the wrong audience, or for an audience too broad to be useful at all. The Same Company Looks Different to Every Buyer A strategic acquirer planning to

By Marcus Wolter SpaceX is public. Anthropic has filed. OpenAI filed days later, but has signaled its own listing may not arrive until 2027. After two years of market participants pricing in a wave of mega-IPOs from the leading AI and space companies, that wave has finally arrived, but it is breaking unevenly, one name at a time rather than as a single event. For dealmakers, the timing matters. The conventional playbook holds that mega-IPOs reignite M&A activity: they create