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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The total number of completed mergers rose to 47 at the close of the third quarter, according to a report Wednesday. “It feels like now we’re starting to see the completed merger activity more ...

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 ...