The deal desk for event-driven funds

Fund Portfolio Management gives merger arbitrage and special situations funds structured, auditable regulatory assessment from the moment a tender offer is announced. Built natively on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Dataverse, with an AI assessment engine your team controls, deployed into your own tenant.

Microsoft-nativeDeploys to your tenant6-week go-live
WBS FPMDeals
SW
Live · deal DL-0418-KGXDEIndustrial

Kion Group AG

Voluntary tender offer · Weichai Power · announced 17.04.2026

Offer / share
€ 42,50
Gross spread
1.53%
Annualised
12.4%
Precedents
12 cases
Merger control72
FDI screening58
Sector regulator24
Awaiting M. Hartmann · sign-off to finalise
221
regulatory authorities pre-mapped
103
merger-control and FDI regimes structured
201
precedent cases in the library
6
weeks from kickoff to go-live
The problem

Deals move faster than regulatory intelligence can keep up. And spreadsheets are not an audit trail.

01

Short windows, high stakes

Squeeze-outs and takeovers announce, price, and settle on tight regulatory timelines. A 48-hour delay in jurisdictional assessment is a mis-priced position.

02

Fragmented sources

BaFin, CNMV, CONSOB, SEC: dozens of regulatory authorities, each with their own forms, languages, and precedent. Analysts spend hours aggregating what an agent can do in minutes.

03

No auditable trail

Investment committees demand explainability. Why this deal? Which precedent? Which jurisdiction? Email chains and Excel files do not survive an audit.

04

Human judgement still essential

AI alone is not investable. Every output needs a named reviewer and a timestamped sign-off before it enters the IC pack.

What FPM delivers

Three capabilities. One platform.

Deal ingestion, regulatory mapping, and structured proposal generation. All connected, all auditable.

01

Deal assessment

Every newly announced deal is ingested and assessed the moment it posts. Sector, country, and regulatory authority mapping, structured and ready in your Dynamics 365 tenant.

  • Offer document PDF parsing
  • Sector and geography tagging
  • Timeline extraction
03

Investment proposal

Generate a structured investment proposal directly from deal data, complete with risk scoring, regulatory conditions, and a mandatory human review gate before finalisation.

  • IC-ready output
  • Precedent-linked rationale
  • Named reviewer sign-off
Platform capabilities

The full M&A deal lifecycle, end to end.

Five connected capabilities on one Microsoft-native platform: deal ingestion, regulatory assessment, human review, investment proposal, and audit logging.

Deal ingestion from URL or PDF

Point the agent at an announcement URL or upload the offer document PDF. It extracts target, bidder, sector, country, offer price, and the key timeline dates, then creates the deal record in Dynamics 365.

  • Offer document ingest workflow
  • Target and bidder resolution from registry data
  • Timeline: announcement, acceptance, settlement
  • All fields back-linked to source page or PDF offset
Book a demo of this
WBS FPMdeals › new
SW
New deal intake
wbs-fpm › deals › new

Angebotsunterlage_Kion_2026-04.pdf

Uploaded · 1.2 MB · 47 pages
Agent extracting deal fields, 7 of 12 complete
Target
Kion Group AG
Bidder
Weichai Power Co.
Sector
Industrial machinery
Country
DE / CN
Offer price
€ 42,50 / share
Acceptance period
24.04 bis 22.05
Deal lifecycle

One workflow, five gates, one platform.

From announcement to settlement, every step is connected, auditable, and paused for human judgement where it matters.

01

Ingest

URL or PDF to structured deal record

Power Automate + AI
02

Assess

221 authorities, precedent-matched

Dataverse + AI
03

Review

Named human sign-off gate

Mandatory
04

Propose

IC-ready investment proposal

Word / PDF
05

Audit

Immutable log, one-click export

Dataverse
Regulatory coverage
221

regulatory authorities, pre-mapped.

83 countries in the data model, 103 merger-control and foreign-investment regimes structured, 201 precedent cases linked. Deep coverage across the EU plus the UK, US and Switzerland, expanding with client priorities.

DEGermany
ATAustria
CHSwitzerland
FRFrance
ITItaly
ESSpain
NLNetherlands
BEBelgium
PLPoland
SESweden
DKDenmark
FIFinland
UKUnited Kingdom
USUnited States
EUEU Commission
Governance

AI surfaces the risk. Your team makes the call.

Every workflow pauses for named, timestamped human sign-off before an output is finalised. No black-box approvals, no silent automation.

AIAgent ingests the dealOffer document parsed, fields extracted
AIRegulatory assessment drafted221 authorities, precedent matched
YOUReviewer reads evidence, signs offMandatory gate, no bypass
AIProposal generated from approved factsRisk score, checklist, IC template
YOUIC reviews, signs off, archivesLocked version stored in Dataverse
  • Explainable by default

    Every assessment shows the checklist used, the facts, the sources, the comparable cases, and the explicit unknowns. Every risk rating carries a written rationale beside the score, and re-rating a deal runs through the same audited pipeline.

  • Auditable by construction

    Dataverse logs every state change with actor, timestamp, and delta. Export an audit pack per deal in one click.

  • Named reviewers, not roles

    Sign-off is tied to an identity, not a group. Your regulator and your IC both want a name.

  • No auto-finalise, ever

    The platform will not store a final assessment without a human decision recorded against it. By design.

Microsoft-native

Runs on the stack your team already uses.

Deploys into your existing Microsoft tenant: no new platform, no new vendor, no parallel security model. Identity, compliance, and data residency stay where they are.

Dynamics 365

Deals, reviewers, decisions live in native tables, visible in model-driven apps.

System of record

Dataverse

Immutable change log, row-level security, native compliance with your M365 tenant.

Data and audit log

Power Automate

Flows orchestrate the AI assessments: prompts, retries, telemetry and human gates. Observable and controllable, no black box.

AI assessment engine

SharePoint

Offer documents, proposals, audit packs, filed where your team already works.

Document store
Proven in production

Born on a live fund desk, not in a lab.

FPM was built inside the daily work of a European special situations fund: real tender offers, real regulatory reviews, real investment committee packs. The workflow you see in the tour is the workflow running in production today.

Security and compliance

Built for regulated funds from day one.

Your data stays in your tenant, under your identity, under your compliance regime. We do not run a shadow data platform.

GDPR / DSGVOEU data residencyYour M365 compliance boundaryHuman oversight by design
  • EU data residency

    Deploys to EU Azure regions by default. No data leaves your jurisdiction without explicit consent.

  • Single identity plane

    Entra ID, your MFA, your conditional access. No shadow accounts.

  • Immutable audit log

    Every state change in Dataverse is logged with actor and timestamp. Retention aligned to your regime.

  • Role-based access

    Analyst, reviewer, IC, admin: row and column level controls, enforced in Dataverse.

  • No training on your data

    Your deal data is never used to train models. Grounded retrieval only, inside your tenant.

  • Microsoft platform security

    Inherits your tenant's Defender monitoring, conditional access and DLP policies.

Deployment

From kickoff to first assessed deal in six weeks.

A fixed envelope, four phases, one team from Woods. Your analysts run the platform from week three.

Week 1

Discovery

Map your current workflow, data sources, and regulatory coverage priorities.

  • Current workflow review
  • Source-system access
  • Jurisdiction shortlist
Weeks 2 and 3

Configure

Deploy to your tenant. Wire Dataverse tables, agents, and your IC template.

  • Tenant deployment
  • Dataverse schema
  • Agent grounding
Weeks 4 and 5

Pilot

Run ten real deals through the workflow with your team. Calibrate the review gate.

  • 10 deals end-to-end
  • Review gate calibration
  • IC template pass
Week 6

Go-live

Full workflow active. Hypercare for two weeks, then handover.

  • Production cutover
  • Two-week hypercare
  • Ops handover
FAQ

Questions we get asked.

Is FPM a standalone SaaS platform or an extension of Dynamics 365?

FPM is a solution package that deploys into your existing Dynamics 365 tenant. It is not a separate SaaS: you own the data, the identity, and the compliance boundary.

Does the AI replace our analysts?

No. The agent drafts the assessment and proposal; your analyst reviews, corrects, and signs off. Every finalised artefact has a named human reviewer. That is a design constraint, not a configuration option.

Which regulatory authorities are pre-mapped?

221 authorities across 83 countries in the data model today, with deep structure for EU merger control and foreign-investment regimes plus the US FTC, UK CMA, Swiss ComCo, and the EU Commission. Coverage expands with client input.

How long is implementation?

Six weeks from kickoff to first live assessment in our standard envelope: discovery in week one, configuration in weeks two and three, pilot in weeks four and five, go-live with hypercare in week six.

Where does our deal data live?

In your Dataverse, in the Azure region you choose, under your identity and compliance regime. We do not operate a shadow data platform: all data is inside your Microsoft tenant.

What about EU AI Act compliance?

FPM is designed around the AI Act's expectations for high-oversight use: mandatory human review gates, transparency of sources, full logging, and explainable outputs are structural features, not add-ons.

About

Built by the team that runs it in production.

Woods Business Solutions builds and operates systems on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dataverse and Azure for investment funds and mid-sized companies. FPM was built and proven inside the daily work of a European special situations fund before it became a product.

We support clients in English and German.

Curious whether FPM fits your fund?

Let us walk through your current deal workflow, data sources, and regulatory coverage together, and identify where FPM creates immediate value.