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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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Integration Lessons from 2024: Overcoming M&A Challenges to Drive Success

E78 Partners

Every year seems to bring a unique blend of challenges for the M&A market, and 2024 was no different. The E78 PMI (Post-merger integration) practice specializes in helping clients overcome the intricate people, process, and technology challenges that accompany mergers and acquisitions.

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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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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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Mergers and Acquisitions: The CFO's Guide to Successful Integration

CFO News

Due diligence, optimized technology, the ability to integrate organizational capabilities, and proper consideration of acquisition risks are the critical factors for fruitful M&A transactions.

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Why The Pandemic Is A ‘Black Swan’ That Will Spur Payments M&A

PYMNTS

The mergers and acquisitions, the deal-making, the funding and IPOs among payments players may be just getting started. Western Union has been public about its desire for acquisitions. Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have been all the rage, too. to go public.

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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.