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4% -- share of annual hours using ai for typical M&A investment bankers (2025)
Typical M&A investment bankers spend approximately 4% of their annual working hours using AI tools.
- Reported range in summary text is 4-6%
- Based on self-reported task-level AI usage in national survey
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4%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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50
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60
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
35
Freshness
95
Source
Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA)
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Tier C
https://talbotwest.com/podcast/episode-3 ↗
Source Article
Episode 3 of The Applied AI Podcast
Jacob Andra interviews Bill McCalpin on AI in M&A, and also BizForesight.
About the episode
Bill McCalpin, founder and CEO of Capitalize Network and chair of the Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA), brings a powerful perspective to the intersection…
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Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA)
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Derived from AM&AA national M&A survey task-level AI usage responses; approximate figure stated on podcast.
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typical M&A investment bankers: 4% share of annual hours using ai. Source: Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors (AM&AA) (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ma-bankers-ai-footprint-4pct
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