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Avoiding The M&A Failure Trap: Q&A With NYU’s Baruch Lev And SUNY Buffalo’s Feng Gu

Global Finance

Together, they recently published The M&A Failure Trap: Why So Many Mergers and Acquisitions Fail, and How the Few Succeed (Wiley). What is it about the current M&A environment that prompted you? Lev: Three years ago, Feng and I, as keen observers of M&A, saw several troubling things.

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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: M&A

Global Finance

Persistent inflation and volatile interest rates defined much of the M&A landscape in 2024, dampening buy-side confidence even as activity gained momentum. Since the beginning of this year, global M&A activity has totaled $418.9 billion (about $7 billion) acquisition of British financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown.

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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Global Winners By Sector

Global Finance

The top three sectors when it comes to dealmaking, according to McKinsey, are global energy and materials (GEM); telecom, media, and technology (TMT); and financial services. The GEM sectors wave of M&A was driven by the race for resource security. Another sector that made a major jump is banking, which includes private equity.

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Understanding the M&A Process Before Making a Deal 

CFO Talks

Understanding the M&A Process Before Making a Deal Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) are some of the biggest decisions a business can make. To make M&A work, companies must carefully analyse the target business, negotiate the right price, and successfully combine both businesses.

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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Global And Country Winners

Global Finance

Best Investment Bank: BofA Securities Against the backdrop of a thriving year for global stock markets and increased activity in the debt spectrum, Bank of America (BofA) Securities managed to catapult its global operations to capture an impressive 43% year-over-year jump in investment banking fees as of the fourth quarter of 2024.

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World’s Best Investment Banks 2025: Debt

Global Finance

trillion of investment-grade and $419.8 Investment-grade bond volume is down 14% thus far across the globe and global high-yield volume is 16% lower. It also played a significant role in boosting the mergers and acquisitions market from the debt side, arranging a $1.8 The US touted a 45% increase. trillion, including $2.7

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Private Equity in 2025: Five Key Levers Driving Value Creation

E78 Partners

For PE operating partners, five key areas stand out as essential drivers of value creation: operational efficiency and margin improvement, digital transformation and AI integration, add-on acquisitions and consolidation, exit readiness, and talent optimization.