The full archive of Corp Dev Careers. New issues every Thursday — curated jobs, AI insights, and career intelligence for M&A professionals.
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5 Corp Dev & M&A roles including Booking Holdings, T-Mobile, and Alloy River. Global M&A hit a record $2.8 trillion in H1 — the strongest six-month run on record — on the fewest deals in six years, with nearly half of all value concentrated in just 47 transactions. Plus Anthropic and OpenAI swapping the revenue lead, and why the scoreboard is always stale and never standardized.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles including Lightspeed, Daisy, and Moderna. AI as stated deal rationale fell from one-third of top 2025 deals to just 17% in 2026 - buyers are testing the thesis now, not just accepting it. Three financial-services megadeals worth $45B in seven weeks, and Liam's take on whether the tokenmaxxing era is finally over.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles including Disney, Justworks, and Descartes. The 2026 AI IPO wave is tracking near 2021's SPAC-era record in dollars, but three companies may absorb what a thousand spread across last time. Plus the three-year reversal: how companies that banned ChatGPT in 2023 are now mandating AI use across their workforce.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles including Suntory Global Spirits and Transamerica. Anthropic's Fable 5 model was pulled after three days under a Commerce Department export-control directive — making frontier model access a real vendor-risk variable. Plus SpaceX's $60B all-stock acquisition of Cursor, and what the co-opetition structure around Colossus 1 means for dealmakers.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles including Amazon and Modaxo. PE vs. Corp Dev trade-off quantified — carry, lifestyle, and career trajectory compared. Claude Fable 5 reviewed for deal work: powerful but expensive, restricted, and requiring 30-day data retention. Plus Liam's Take on AI labs calling for restraint while racing ahead themselves.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles at Dycom Industries, Walmart, Opendoor, Cardinal Health, and Expedia Group. AI infrastructure is turning regulated utilities into strategic assets — NextEra's $67B acquisition of Dominion explained. Corporate buyers are running a more selective M&A market. Plus Liam's take on how software valuations are shifting from ARR growth to profit quality.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles at Visa, Datadog, AstraZeneca, Alamos Gold, and TransPerfect. Elite Corp Dev seats are emerging as first-choice IB exits — the compensation, deal reps, and career path explained. Plus ChatGPT's Company Knowledge for internal deal files and Liam's take on the roles AI can't replace.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles at Armanino, Anthropic, Harris Computer, Solen Software Group, and Galaxy. US PE is sitting on $1 trillion in dry powder — so why aren't sponsors buying? The deployment paradox explained, and what it means for M&A professionals.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles at Perseus Group, PartnerOne, Hagerty, Vantage Airport Group, and Vista Equity Partners. Anthropic leases Elon's Colossus 1 supercomputer — 220K GPUs, $4B/yr. GSD for Claude Code tackles context rot. Plus Liam's take on AI splitting into verticals, just like SaaS did.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles at Geotab, Canada Life, ATS Corporation, Aspire Software, and Klaviyo. GPT-5.5 vs. Claude Opus 4.7 — where each model actually wins. Why political fragmentation is rerouting cross-border M&A. Plus Liam's take on the rise of the VMS corp dev career path.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles at Affirm, National Bank of Canada, Roofstock, Visa, and Amazon AWS. How title inflation is outpacing compensation in corp dev. OpenAI's Trillion-Dollar Math Problem — the infrastructure bets powering AI growth. Plus Liam's take on how few people are truly using AI deeply.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles at Snyk, Roblox, Salesforce, Hudbay Minerals, and Definity Financial. Deal values up 40% but volume flat — the megadeal rebound explained. 90% of dealmakers use AI; 80% have had incidents. Plus Liam's take on the opportunity in AI competency.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles at CoreWeave, Discord, Cologix, Riskified, and Solen Software Group. Anthropic's legal battle with the Pentagon. OpenAI and Anthropic's latest acquisitions. Plus Liam's take on AI consolidation risks for consumers.
5 Corp Dev & M&A roles across top acquirers. An analysis of the AI chatbot race. Stitch by Google Labs as tool of the week. Plus Liam's take on Anthropic's free coding courses on Skilljar.
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