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Riyaad Cruywagen, Deputy Managing Partner at Webber Wentzel's Cape Town office, shares how balance, resilience and technology come together in a career built on corporate law. He explains how Ansarada gives him visibility over due diligence, protects client confidentiality, and supports the dealmaking community he came up in. Watch his story.
Grid-scale battery storage has moved from optional add-on to load-bearing infrastructure, and deal financing now reflects it. Storm's €330 million financing for two Belgian battery parks, syndicated across ten institutions including I4B, PMV, TINC and a seven-bank consortium, shows capital providers underwriting flexibility as its own asset class. Unlike generation assets, BESS revenue comes from arbitrage, frequency response and capacity payments, a multi-contract risk profile that suits syndicated project finance. For M&A and infrastructure dealmakers, storage is the fastest financeable answer to grid congestion, converting a physical constraint into an investable asset class with mainstream deal structures.
Justin Smith on why Ipsum bought a grid connection company instead of a wind farm, and what a 700GW UK connections queue, Belgian grid congestion, and a NZ$2 billion distribution sale reveal about energy capital's new bottleneck.
Justin Smith on why a quiet Swiss metering roll-up, two acquisitions in under a year, might matter more to the energy transition than any single wind farm, and why none of this series' other M&A deals actually work without it.
From a $24 billion hyperscale data centre platform to a 95MW solar farm in Spain, Justin Smith unpacks why the firm power PPA has become energy dealmaking's most important contract, and what surging AI power demand means for how these assets get priced and financed.
AI-driven data centre demand is reshaping where energy capital goes. Ansarada CEO Justin Smith traces the same pattern across a dozen deals in six countries: generation is giving way to firm offtake, storage, and grid connections as the real asset.
Due diligence has a volume problem. Modern M&A transactions generate thousands of documents – financial statements, contracts, compliance records, HR data – and the expectation is that deal teams will review them thoroughly, fast. Traditional virtual data rooms solved the access and security challenge. They didn't solve the analysis challenge.
TLDR: Business acquisition due diligence goes beyond a tick-box exercise to reveal how organised a business really is. Ansarada helps implement a repeatable due diligence process, bringing greater order and structure to the deal — and giving everyone involved more confidence from start to finish.
Virtual data rooms (VDRs) are secure online platforms used to store, share, and manage confidential documents during M&A, due diligence, audits, and capital raising. The best VDR balances bank-grade encryption, granular permissions, compliance certifications (ISO 27001,ISO/IEC 42001 for AI governance ), and AI-powered features like automated redaction and smart search. This guide compares key security standards, pricing models, and collaboration tools to help organisations select the right platform — and explains how Ansarada leads for complex, high-stakes transactions.
AI data rooms use semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and automated Q&A to transform how M&A deal teams work through due diligence. Traditional data rooms use keyword search and manual folder navigation. Here is the complete comparison — and why the gap is widening.
Static checklists overlook crucial aspects of the due diligence process, and manual processes merely slow things down. That’s why more advisors are moving towards automated workflows that bring order, accuracy and control to every deal. Using Ansarada’s Workflow feature for automated due diligence isn’t just a nice-to-have; it’s essential.
In M&A deals, slow support isn’t a small inconvenience; it’s a genuine risk. Delays derail due diligence and extend the M&A timeline. Ansarada’s 24/7 global human support model removes friction, keeps deals moving and most importantly, brings confidence.
Growth is undoubtedly a measure of success, but with it comes complexity. Board meetings that once fit neatly into an hour with a few slides soon demand more structure, sharper decisions, and greater scrutiny.
With a flat banking transaction market, Australian and New Zealand investors are hopeful of better times ahead in 2026.
AI and hot demand for data centres means the outlook for tech M&A is rosy.
