Mergers and acquisitions can transform a company's future. For family businesses, those decisions hinge on more than ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Providing tools and resources to start, grow and manage your business. In acquisitions of privately held companies, an acquisition ...

The Situation: For the past few years, bank regulators and the Department of Justice (the "DOJ") adopted a deeply skeptical approach to consideration of bank mergers and acquisitions ("M&A"), freezing ...

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 ...