Ha.

This is the least of how M&A is broken.

The entire industry around M&A exists to play on one emotion in its clients. Fear.

Fear will be stoked in you from the first meeting with any advisors. All of the people who are supposedly on your side know, the more afraid the customer is, the higher percentage of the deal price they can extract.

Fear that you could have negotiated a higher price, fear that you are going to lose the deal, fear that you will agree to a term that will screw you in the long term.

Once you are sufficiently afraid, you will then not bat an eye about spending literally millions of dollars for the mundane services they provide and feeling good about it.