Investment Banking

Accelerate mandate success

Win more mandates and strengthen client relationships

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Drive mandate origination

Find paths to decision-makers through your network 

Identifying the right opportunities and securing mandates requires strong relationships with key decision-makers. Affinity maps your firm's collective network to surface the most effective paths to corporate and financial sponsors, helping you secure more mandates.

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Track engagement with prospects and clients 

Maintaining consistent communication with prospective clients is crucial for winning mandates. Affinity automatically captures every interaction, helping you monitor engagement and identify the right time to advance discussions.

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Access enriched company insights

Comprehensive company intelligence elevates market assessments. Affinity enriches every profile automatically with financial metrics, growth indicators, and market data from trusted sources—helping you quickly identify promising opportunities.

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Affinity recommended introduction card showing a CFO with a relationship score of 88 out of 100
Affinity recommended introduction card showing a CFO with a relationship score of 88 out of 100
Affinity activity timeline chart of meetings, reminders, and messages with logged call and email cards
Affinity activity timeline chart of meetings, reminders, and messages with logged call and email cards
Affinity company profile for Sierra with a customize view panel toggling enriched data fields
Affinity company profile for Sierra with a customize view panel toggling enriched data fields

Manage deal execution

Keep deal team aligned on mandates

When multiple analysts, associates, and senior bankers are working on transactions, maintaining alignment is critical. Affinity brings your pipeline and communications together in one place, ensuring everyone has visibility into transaction progress and next steps.

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Share information securely

Managing sensitive M&A information across deal teams, corporate clients, and potential acquirers requires enterprise-grade security. Affinity's permissions ensure confidential data is only visible to authorized stakeholders while enabling effective collaboration.

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Affinity deal flow board view with a highlighted Venturous opportunity card
Affinity deal flow board view with a highlighted Venturous opportunity card
Collaborators settings page with an invitation to join a shared Affinity list
Collaborators settings page with an invitation to join a shared Affinity list

Strengthen client relationships

Build lasting client partnerships

Long-term advisory relationships depend on consistent engagement with corporate clients, financial sponsors, and strategic buyers. Track interactions across key stakeholders, set reminders to stay in touch, and identify opportunities to deliver additional value.

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Measure team value and impact

Demonstrating value requires clear metrics and comprehensive reporting. Generate detailed visualizations that showcase mandate progress, team activity levels, and transaction pipeline performance to key stakeholders.

Deal update report tracking teaser and NDA status by buyer, with transaction counts and fees by stage

Contact card showing source of introduction, strongest connection, and last contact
Contact card showing source of introduction, strongest connection, and last contact
Deal update report tracking teaser and NDA status by buyer, with transaction counts and fees by stage
Deal update report tracking teaser and NDA status by buyer, with transaction counts and fees by stage

Get more done by integrating with your favorite tools

Affinity connects with the tools your team uses every day, such as Slack, Mailchimp, Dropbox, and more.

Where to next?

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Choosing an investment banking CRM

What separates a CRM built for dealmaking from a generic sales tool, and how to pick one.

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M&A deal sourcing, end to end

The origination strategies deal teams use to find targets and win more mandates.

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How Woodside Capital Partners uses Affinity

See how Woodside Capital Partners streamlines building the right connections for M&A deals.

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