Modernizing the Transaction Ecosystem
DoneDeal was built by attorneys who became operators — and operators who never stopped thinking like attorneys. The platform reflects both: institutional-grade rigor, built for the way deals actually get done.
The deal process is broken. We've seen it from the inside.
DoneDeal was built by attorneys who became operators — and operators who never stopped thinking like attorneys. The platform reflects both: institutional-grade rigor, built for the way deals actually get done.
Every day, thousands of businesses are bought and sold. Buyers acquire companies to grow their portfolios. Advisors guide clients through some of the most consequential decisions of their careers. The volume of business transactions has never been higher.
And yet the process itself looks almost identical to how it looked thirty years ago — disconnected emails, siloed Word documents, inconsistent checklists, and advisors guessing at what "market standard" means. Buyers and sellers lack clarity on what's market. Legal costs spiral. Steps get missed at the worst possible moment. Deals that should close in sixty days stretch to six months — or fall apart entirely.
Traditional advisors are expensive, inconsistent, and often working against each other rather than with each other. There's no common infrastructure. No shared language. No institutional-grade playbook accessible to anyone without a nine-figure deal budget.
We spent years on the inside of this — advising buyers, sellers, and sponsors across hundreds of transactions. We watched sophisticated parties stitch together deals with the same duct tape everyone else uses. We built workarounds ourselves. We know exactly where the process breaks down, because we've seen it break down in every way it can.
DoneDeal is what we kept wishing existed. A transaction operating system that brings market-standard documentation, guided workflows, intelligent deal infrastructure, and the institutional knowledge of seasoned practitioners into one platform — accessible to every deal, regardless of size.
What We Believe
Standards exist for a reason
Market-tested documentation exists because it took decades of painful experience to develop. We make it accessible — not because it's easy, but because deals shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel every time.
Clarity is a competitive advantage
Complexity isn't sophistication — it's friction in disguise. Every party to a transaction deserves to understand what they're signing, what comes next, and what it means for them.
Speed and rigor aren't opposites
The fastest deals aren't the ones that cut corners. They're the ones that don't waste time on the wrong things. We eliminate the friction, not the diligence.
Deals are collaborative by nature
Every transaction involves multiple parties, advisors, and timelines moving simultaneously. The platform has to make that coordination easier — not harder — than picking up the phone.
Built by Experience
Two M&A attorneys, technology executives, and legal operations leaders with over $10 billion in closed deal experience and two decades of combined legal, business, and technology leadership.
Anthony Fernandez, Esq., MBA
Co-Founder & CEO
An experienced dealmaker for nearly a decade. Now building the infrastructure it never had.
Anthony studied business at Emory University's Goizueta Business School before launching his career in financial services and fintech, leading business development and growth initiatives at PayPal and Standard & Poor's. The technology instinct and entrepreneurial drive he developed there never left him.
After earning his JD/MBA, he spent the last eight years as a Corporate M&A attorney at a top AmLaw 20 firm, closing more than 100 transactions totaling over $10 billion in value. Recognized in Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law and M&A, Anthony provided strategic legal counsel to buyers, sellers, and private equity sponsors across technology, software, healthcare, logistics, insurance, and financial services. Across every transaction, he kept seeing the same pattern: sophisticated parties, inefficient and fragmented processes, unnecessary costs, deals falling apart — and an industry that had accepted chaos as the cost of doing business.
He left to do something about it. DoneDeal is Anthony's answer — drawing on his legal, business, and technology experience to architect the future of how deals get done by creating the first AI-powered M&A transaction operating system.
Tyler Laurence, Esq., MBA
Co-Founder & President
A corporate multi-hyphenate and creative entrepreneur shaping the future of legal-to-business technology.
Tyler started his career making records at NYU's Clive Davis Institute — not the typical origin story for someone building M&A infrastructure. But the instinct that drove him in the studio — collaborating with creators to find what's missing, build it, and ship it — is the same instinct he brought to every deal he'd go on to close.
After earning his JD/MBA, he cut his teeth as an M&A and venture capital attorney at a top-20 AmLaw firm, advising on over $1 billion in aggregate deal value across buy-side and sell-side transactions and growth equity investments. He orchestrated complex deals, composed the agreements required to close them, and engineered the workflows to make sure nothing quietly fell apart along the way.
He moved in-house to test a hypothesis: that legal could be an engine for growth, not just a cost center. His experience at multiple billion-dollar health-tech companies validated the theory — he unlocked growth across business units by operating as a business-forward legal partner to product, sales, and executive leadership, not just the legal department.
Every role taught him the same lesson: transactional infrastructure should empower business stakeholders, not slow them down. DoneDeal is Tyler's answer — purpose-built technology that gives every deal the structure, clarity, and momentum it deserves.
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