How AI Is Changing the Way Businesses Are Bought and Sold + 2026 Market Update

Join award-winning commercial lawyer Joanna Oakey, Managing Partner of Aspect Legal, and Mark Rodrigues, Head of SEEK Business, for a practical lunchtime session on how AI is really being used in buying and selling businesses, and where the market sits in 2026.

This session will cover:

The 2026 state of the business sales market, straight from SEEK Business' own data
A first look at brand-new Australian data on where AI adoption in business sales really sits in 2026
Buyers: how AI takes weeks out of finding, researching and pressure testing a target
Sellers: how to see your business the way a buyer using AI will, well before you list
Inside SEEK: how Australia's most trusted employment website SEEK is using AI
Where AI genuinely helps in a deal, and where it quietly creates risk

Whether you're weighing up a sale, hunting for your next acquisition, brokering deals, or advising the people who do, you'll leave with things you can use the same day.

A seasoned commercial lawyer and deal maker with a passion for business, who has worked with hundreds of businesses during her 2 decades in the industry, as they are acquiring and exiting.

She is the Managing Partner of the awarding winning commercial legal firm, Aspect Legal (recently crowned one of the top specialist legal firms in Australia), host of Australia’s top M&A legal podcast (The Deal Room) and author of the best-selling small business book, Buy Grow Exit – a guidebook for business owners.

Mark Rodrigues has been an integral part of SEEK Business, for the past three and a half years, first as Product & Engineering Lead and now as the Head of SEEK Business. With over 25 years of leadership and innovation experience, Mark most recently led the engineering team at the Bunnings Innovation Lab before joining us. He has also been a driving force in tech start-ups and holds a Masters in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Mark is deeply inspired by SEEK's purpose to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives, and shares our commitment to helping brokers, franchisors, and business owners thrive, and using technology to transform the business-for-sale landscape.

How AI Is Changing the Way Businesses Are Bought and Sold + 2026 Market Update

Joanna Oakey

Mark Rodrigues

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