Software licensing & M&A advisor. Two decades helping acquirers find, quantify and defend the licensing and audit exposure hidden inside a software estate.
20 years in enterprise software licensing and audit defense in M&A. Based in Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States.
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. That structural independence 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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