World’s most prestigious, the USA Middle Markets M&A Atlas Awards honors best value-creating deals, outstanding firms, legendary leaders & dealmakers exclusively from the small to middle-market corporations, investors and transactional communities.

PRESTIGE: Winning the independently governed awards, equates to achieving the “Gold Standard of Performance” standing in the industry, validating the firm and team leadership since winners are selected based on “deals criteria” and expertise.

► GAIN Advantage, NOMINATE: We encourage you to nominate on behalf of your organization, colleagues, and clients to gain advantage of being considered first, and early notification about your winner status. There are no fees to nominate in any number of awards categories.

► ELIGIBILITY: Deals must be closed in the timeframe: July 1, 2025 – July 31, 2026. Forms must be fully completed to qualify and for expeditated consideration.

► INDEPENDENT GOVERANCE & Process: Prestige emanates from the integrity and objectivity of the process. Winners are judged by point-indexed scoring method based on the transaction criteria that includes pre-and-post execution outcomes; style/negotiation; sector complexities; regulation/jurisdictions; stakeholder/community value impact; leadership; brand strength; etc.
Significantly, the process does not involve industry partners or vendors to insure a 100% conflict-free process. We do not accept awards gala sponsorship from deal advisors to avoid any “pay for play” influences. Firm winners are selected from the shortlist immaterial of league table rankings, and based on evaluative standards including execution record, expertise, leadership, client service and performance improvements, etc.

► AWARDS GALA CEREMONY: Winners are honored during the staged gala ceremony in conjunction with the Day Forum. As always winners must register at the VIP level and participate at staged ceremony to accept their prized, custom trophy. (See VIP registration benefits below.)

► WINNER TROPHY Presentation Polices: Outstanding Firms: Firm representative can accept the prized winner trophy.
Leaders & Dealmakers: Award recipients must personally accept their accolade at the ceremony. Deal Awards Winners: Naturally each deal consists of several advisors. Trophy presented – (1st) nominees, (2) corporate or private equity buyers or sellers, (3) buy-side advisors; (4th) sell-side lead advisors.
Note: Firms that are part of several award-winning transactions must register deal-team members who worked on the winning transaction to accept their deal awards winner trophy.

TERMS: By submitting the entry form, the nominee agrees and accepts the following in its entirety:
A. Global M&A Network (GM&AN) reserves the right to re-classify entries and/or eliminate awards categories.
B. Winners must attend the gala dinner as part of the “winner-circle”, and accept their prized winner trophy.
C. GM&AN may include the winners in its news releases, marketing, and online materials.
D. GM&AN does not disclose any data/private info on the entry forms to any external parties.

VIP i-REGISTER, TOP 5 BENEFITS: (1) Access to the day forum including related food/beverage, etc., (2) Speaker invites at discretion of GM&AN, per expertise; (3) Evening networking cocktail party, dinner, staged ceremony; (4) Prized custom winner trophy – by firm name, award category; (5) Licensing rights, promo materials – logos, etc. (Please note, we recommend early confirmation since it takes over 2 weeks to customize the trophy.)