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"between 70-90% of mergers and acquisitions result in failure"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
WHAT IS HPA
We are a boutique M&A advisory firm with decades of experience in micro M&A transactions.
Our team of M&A specialists has led or contributed in hundreds of acquisitions and integrations of software businesses worldwide.
HPA leverages our extensive deal-making experience to reduce our clients’ risk of engaging in M&A activities, using our decades of trial and error in the field to help clients navigate both areas of opportunity and common mistakes. Our automated approach helps clients to move faster and with more certainty, enabling more rapid deal closings and more efficient and smooth integrations.
The name HPA is taken from the high-performing algorithms that serve as the ‘secret sauce’ of many software systems, and are key to solving computationally tricky problems. The creation of these algorithms requires considerable trial and error and time to perfect, creating a competitive advantage when used effectively.
Our secret sauce is the experience and deep expertise of our team, which includes decades of combined work buying, selling, and integrating software business. We have deployed billions of dollars of capital and completed hundreds of M&A transactions and integrations. Through our extensive experience, we have designed a new approach to M&A transactions that allow our clients to acquire and sell companies faster, integrating them more quickly, with a higher certainty of successful execution against their thesis.
Mastering the art of deal making
is no easy task, but essential
in transforming an everyday business
into a world-class business empire
WHO WE ARE
Seamas Egan is HPA’s founder and has over ten years of experience as a technology executive. He launched HPA to provide his expertise in M&A to private clients seeking guidance and advisory throughout the acquisition or selling process.
Seamas spent his entire career with j2 Global (Nasdaq: JCOM), a diversified billion-dollar software and technology firm with multiple subsidiaries. During his tenure, Seamas ran multiple business units as j2 pursued an aggressive M&A growth strategy, and he was responsible for due diligence, integration strategy, and leading executing of post-acquisition integration activities on over a dozen large M&A deals in the SaaS and email marketing space that increased his division’s annual revenues 10x.
While at j2, Seamas oversaw a division with over 250 employees distributed across Canada, the United States, England, and Ukraine. He offers significant experience in operations optimization, product, and go-to-market strategy, and top-line growth strategy for businesses focused on a possible exit.
Seamas is frequently published on topics related to email marketing, digital media, and e-commerce. His writing has appeared in Inc., Entrepreneur, Forbes, HuffingtonPost, Martech Advisor, and MarketingProfs. He earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance from the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa.
Seamas is married with four young children. He is an avid world traveler and outdoorsman, fan of golf and European football, and enjoys skiing and snowboarding during Canadian winters. His father, Dr. Sean Egan, passed away in 2005 while attempting to become the oldest Canadian (and Irishman) to summit Mount Everest. Seamas and his family founded a school in Nepal in his father’s honor that shelters over 200 orphans.
IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT IT COSTS;
it’s about what it is worth!
WHAT WE do
Helping your business
grow strategically,
and maximize its value, through a prudent acquisition process
Helping your business
realize value through a proven portfolio management
and business sale
process
Helping your business
align its operating model
with business priorities
to deliver on its financial ambition
What We Do
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