Every page on this site is meant to help a deal team make a high-stakes decision. This is how that content is produced, who is accountable for it, and how to tell us when we get something wrong.
M&A Software Advisory publishes commercial and licensing guidance for acquirers, private equity deal teams and the software asset management leaders who inherit a combined estate. Because that guidance informs money decisions, we hold it to the standards below. This policy was last reviewed on 25 June 2026.
Every article carries a named author, not a faceless brand byline. Our content is written by the firm's two practising advisors, Fredrik Filipsson and Morten Andersen, each of whom has spent roughly two decades inside enterprise software licensing, audit defense and software asset management. Authorship is matched to the subject: licensing and audit-exposure topics are written by the advisor with direct hands-on experience of that vendor or deal stage, not delegated to a generalist.
Our guidance is grounded in first-hand engagement work — the exposures we have actually quantified inside live deals, the audit positions we have defended, and the carve-out and reconciliation programmes we have run. Where we state a vendor licensing rule, an audit clause, or a market figure, we trace it back to a primary source: the vendor's own licensing documentation, the contract language, or a named public reference. Client work is published only as anonymised composites so that no live process or party can be identified.
Software licensing rules and vendor audit behaviour change over time, so accuracy is time-bound. Vendor and legal references on this site carry the source and the date they were accurate as of. Each article carries a published date and a last-updated date in its structured data, and shows its last-updated date on the page itself. We review evergreen guidance periodically and refresh, consolidate or retire pages that have gone stale rather than leave outdated advice live.
We would rather be corrected than be wrong. If you find a factual error, an out-of-date licensing rule, or a figure you can't reconcile, email info@mnasoftwareadvisory.com with the page URL and the specifics. We aim to acknowledge within two business days, verify against the primary source, and correct the page promptly. Substantive corrections are reflected in the article's last-updated date so the change is visible, not silent.
M&A Software Advisory is an independent firm. We hold no affiliation with any software publisher or reseller, we never resell licenses, and we are paid only by the acquirer. We carry no vendor sponsorship and accept no payment to feature, rank or endorse a product, vendor or reseller. If any commercial relationship ever bore on a piece of content, we would disclose it on that page. There are no affiliate links on this site.
Editorial judgement, the substance of our guidance, and every factual claim are owned and verified by our named human advisors. Where AI tools assist with drafting or research support, the output is reviewed and corrected by the named author before publication, and the author remains accountable for accuracy. We do not publish unreviewed machine-generated content.
The content on this site is commercial and licensing advisory, not legal advice. We identify and quantify where clauses and entitlements create exposure; we recommend you engage your own counsel for legal interpretation of any contract, clause, or claim.
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