They're the ultimate bets companies can make on their futures. So M&A activity can reflect confidence in the economy.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I do mergers & acquisitions in retail/consumer and write about trends. In my firm’s mergers and acquisitions business, we spend all our ...

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After higher interest rates and a sometimes shaky financial market put a damper on mergers and acquisitions in 2023, Indiana ...

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions ...

Keen investors witnessed a steep decline in mergers and acquisitions activity in 2023. Morningstar's PitchBook, a capital-markets research firm, estimates global M&A activity last year totaled ...

We believe that there have been fewer than 40 mergers between biotech companies, but several hundred alliances have been established. The two major acquisitions that have occurred among large-cap ...

Finally, a business that plans to go public may choose to merge with what is known as a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The new company is created to effect the merger, and a stock ...

Some hear merger and acquisition. Some hear Scylla and Charybdis. In either case, most get lured to their death or destruction. While the lure of Sirens was a myth, we do know that 83% of mergers ...

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan defended the FTC's crackdown on mergers and acquisitions, arguing that her agency has to protect competition in the marketplace. Intel has gone from the ...

"Health systems pursuing mergers and acquisitions in 2025 will likely spend much more time and money preparing filings for the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC finalized changes to the Hart-Scott ...

Stay informed of our coverage of deals inside the plastics industry. Merger and acquisition deals are indexed with links for more in-depth information. Plasticade Products LLC, a Des Plaines ...