On 16 September 2019 Andrew Hill reported the toll that M&A was taking on staff in terms of disruption and anxiety. Though the article focuses on headlining deals, we believe that regardless of the deal size, employee engagement is one of the keys to realising...
A nice - and unusual - way to round up the year: two large-scale, highly-prominent 'mergers of equals' are both showing signs of...
Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, has called attempts by rival holding groups, Omnicom Media Group and Publicis Groupe to form a £23 bilion "merger of equals" "impossible". "They talk about this being a merger of equals, which is technically impossible. From an accounting point...
Interesting developments continue in the merger efforts of American Airlines and US Airways: According to the Washington Post, the U.S. Department of Justice and several states have just sued to block the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways, arguing that the new $11 billion airline would reduce...