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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 ...

Five years after taking a nosedive during the pandemic, the number of law firm mergers is steadily on the rise across the nation, and experts say the growth is here to stay. Kristin Stark “Clients are ...

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 ...

Cross-market mergers — transactions between health systems operating in separate geographic regions — are becoming a more prominent trend in hospital consolidation as organizations continue to shift ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s business-friendly deregulatory moves have sparked a sharp increase in corporate merger activity over the first 13 months of his second term. Each week, the Law.com Barometer ...

Many mergers claim to be “transformative,” but history shows that most destroy shareholder value — often benefiting executives and bankers more than investors. Three recent deals illustrate differing ...

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 ...