Mergers and acquisitions, often referred to as “M&A,” are transactions in which companies combine, buy, or sell businesses or ...

Discover how horizontal acquisitions work, their advantages, and real-world examples, helping you understand industry ...

Every M&A involves four stakeholder groups, each on a different clock, each with a different breaking point. All four are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Providing tools and resources to start, grow and manage your business. In acquisitions of privately held companies, an acquisition ...

Companies can grow by simply selling more products, but there is a long history of corporate growth based on strategic mergers and acquisitions. In recent months, the woodworking industry has seen ...

A new Bain & Co report shows that oil and gas consolidation over the past decade has been driven by a small group of ...

We develop a search-based theory of mergers and acquisitions with heterogeneous firms and endogenous search complementarities. We use this model to understand how merger incentives and the firm size ...

Mergers and acquisitions are major transitions for organizations that often come with uncertainty and stress for employees. How leaders communicate during this time can either keep things steady — or ...