Most mergers are engineered for efficiency. Systems are aligned, redundancies eliminated, and structures combined. Yet despite careful planning, most mergers fail to deliver on their strategic promise ...

Track Record of Failure: Past railroad mergers have delivered service meltdowns and financial extraction instead of promised efficiencies. Yet, regulators may still approve Union Pacific's $250 ...

A merger is a voluntary legal agreement executed between two different companies to unite them into a new entity. Mergers allow companies to recognize new synergies, reduce costs, expand their ...

The Second Hundred firms that engaged in mergers over the course of 2025 generally outperformed their peers, but many others have good reasons to be content with their current scale. The full 2026 Am ...

2025 was a year full of mergers, and the midsize law firm market saw a fair amount of consolidation as firms of all sizes sought increased scale. It was a year of merger innovation among the midsize ...

On 30 April 2026, the European Commission (EC) published a draft of its updated merger guidelines setting out the analytical framework that the EC will use to assess mergers (Draft Guidelines). The ...