Software licensing & M&A advisor. Two decades helping acquirers find, quantify and defend the licensing and audit exposure hidden inside a software estate.
LinkedIn profileFredrik Filipsson is co-founder of M&A Software Advisory. He has spent two decades in enterprise software licensing and audit defense, advising acquirers and licensees on how Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and IBM exposure shows up inside a deal and how to price, paper and remediate it.
His work sits in the gap other diligence workstreams leave open: deployed software usage measured against entitlement for the publishers that drive audit risk. On engagements that has meant surfacing eight-figure exposures that standard due diligence missed, then translating them into a defensible number an investment committee can price into a deal, hold in escrow, or cover by warranty and indemnity. He writes extensively on software risk in M&A and is one of the two named authors behind the guidance on this site.
Like the firm, Fredrik works buyer-side only. He holds no affiliation with any software publisher or reseller and is paid only by the acquirer — the structural independence that lets his analysis defend your position at audit rather than sell a vendor product. How that independence shows up in our content is set out in our editorial standards.
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Read more about the firm and its approach on the About page, or about co-founder Morten Andersen.
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