In acquisitions of privately held companies, an acquisition letter of intent/term sheet is often entered into by both parties. The purpose of the letter of intent is to ensure there is a “meeting of ...

Successfully navigating an M&A deal requires engaging the right advisors, setting the right timetable, and anticipating ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leadership Strategist Dan Pontefract covers leadership and culture. Most mergers and acquisitions start with spreadsheets and end ...

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 haven’t had much of an appetite for mergers and acquisitions over the last few years. Some of that was down to an uncertain economy, elevated interest rates and the hard line the Biden ...