From OpenAI to Versace to a big public company that is now private again, here were some of the most notable business deals ...

Mergers and acquisitions soared this year. 2026 could be even bigger. Mergers and acquisitions rose this year — and they can keep rising.

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 ...

To explore this trend, we spoke with Stan Bullis, president of Unbridled, and Michael Gietzen, group chief executive officer ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Wayne Winegarden covers the economic impacts of regulatory policies The U.S. is mired in a growth slowdown. Between 1960 and 2007 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is nothing inherently wrong with the merger of two companies. Many on the left have adopted the view that mergers and acquisitions somehow are a problem for our economy. Nothing could be further ...

After a hot start to the year, U.S. upstream mergers and acquisitions slid into a slump in the third quarter, with deal value dropping to $9.7 billion, marking the third straight quarterly decline.

In finance, a buyout refers to the purchase of a company's voting stock in which the acquiring party gains control of the target company. A buyout can be funded with a combination of cash or debt.