Mergers and acquisitions can transform a company's future. For family businesses, those decisions hinge on more than ...

The Situation: For the past few years, bank regulators and the Department of Justice (the "DOJ") adopted a deeply skeptical approach to consideration of bank mergers and acquisitions ("M&A"), freezing ...

A small community hospital merger began with hope. Being acquired by a larger health system could be a lifeline, and it was assumed that their arrival would be welcomed, even celebrated. Instead, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...