17 December, 2020
Covid and liquidity boost ‘mega’ M&A deals
Corporate finance junkies will have noticed the stream of M&A "mega deals" (those worth $5bn or more) over recent months, capped by news this week of
25 November, 2020
Collapse of Victoria’s Secret deal reveals weakness in M&A contracts
Victoria’s Secret, purveyor of luxury lingerie, made headlines this year when its sale to a private equity buyer was left indiscreetly crumpled on the floor because of the pandemic. Academics now ar...
12 November, 2020
UK seeks powers to block foreign investment on national security grounds
Just as observers expect M&A activity to spike becaus...
8 June, 2020
How failed M&A can destroy a director’s credibility
Big mergers and acquisitions (M&As) make their first splash in the headlines based on the huge price tags attached to them. “Abbvie acquires Allergan, $63bn”, “United Technologies acquires R...
14 April, 2020
Warnings over risk of investor activism as boards focus on survival
As if boards didn’t have enough to do managing their companies in the midst of global pandemic, now they must contend with warnings of increased attention from activist investors. Attention has g...
30 March, 2020
M&A activity predicted to increase post-Covid-19 crisis
The world may be in the grip of a global pandemic, but corporate leaders are already thinking about what will happen when the situation stabilises—and research finds that mergers and acquisitions (M...
12 February, 2020
US regulator orders tech giants to release data on acquisitions
Corporate acquisitions by Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are to come under scrutiny as US regulators look to see if a series of tech acquisitions were “anticompetitive” and whether ...
18 May, 2018
Preparation key for growing trend of corporate venture capital deals
When the business pages write about venture capital they usually fail to make an important distinction. Though VC deals make for attention-grabbing headlines, it is corporate venture capital investmen...
31 October, 2017
M&A post-crisis: the changing role of the NED
After the financial crisis of 2007–2008, mergers and acquisitions dried up. However, recent figures show that deals are back, causing a frisson in the markets. But w...
26 July, 2017
