Often, cultural integration, leadership retention, and post-merger alignment prove harder than the financial modeling. The ...

The dollars involved in startup M&A deals appear to be up significantly this year, though deal counts are not. Still, ...

There were a total of 982 deals announced by media and telecommunications companies in North America during 2025, down from 1,176 deals in 2024, according to S&P Global Intelligence. Despite total ...

A study conducted on over 40,000 corporate acquisitions over the last four decades determined that around 70 percent of mergers fail, in that they don't deliver the synergies, revenue boosts and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an antitrust expert and former FTC general counsel. Trump antitrust officials are easing up on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) ...

A merger and acquisition (M&A) deal is said to be accretive if the acquiring firm's earnings per share (EPS) increase after the deal goes through. The deal is dilutive if the result causes the ...

M&A experts say mergers of private companies that are under financial pressure to combine are some of the hardest deals to do.

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