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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...