Merger activity remained steady last week with three new deals announced and four deals completed. Incorporated in 1989 and headquartered in San Francisco, CAI International is a global transportation company that offers intermodal container leasing and sales. On June 17, ...

Merger activity decreased last week with three new deals announced and four deals completed. Chad Williams founded QTS Realty Trust (QTS) in the year 2003 with the purchase of a data center in Kansas. The company provides data center solutions ...

Merger activity increased last week with five new deals announced and four deals completed. Three of the five deals announced last week were regional bank deals. We wrote the following about consolidation among regional banks in our June Special Situations newsletter: ...

Merger activity increased last week with four new deals announced and five deals completed. There were 14 deals announced in the month of May with a total deal value of over $60 billion. This was a significant decline from April, ...

Merger activity decreased last week with three new deals announced and one deal completed. The bidding war for Kansas City Southern (KCS) came to an end last week after the company’s Board of Directors determined that the acquisition proposal KCS received from ...

Merger activity increased last week with four new deals announced, three deals completed and one deal that fell apart. Domtar Corporation (UFS) was founded in 1848 in England and was originally called Boulton Holding Ltd. Domtar is the largest integrated manufacturer ...

Merger activity decreased last week with three new deals announced and two deals completed. Unlike the previous month, there were no banking-related mergers announced last week but we did see yet another deal receive a higher offer. Holmdel-based Monmouth Real Estate ...

Merger activity increased last week with seven new deals announced and four deals completed. In keeping with what we have been seeing for several weeks, two of these seven new deals were banking related mergers. There were a total of ...

We have been writing about two M&A trends this year including bidding wars for companies and consolidation in the banking sector. We saw both trends in play last week with a new superior offer for the railroad Kansas City Southern ...

I am frequently reminded that the biggest mistakes I make when it comes to investing is not holding positions for long periods of time. I wrote about one such situation in an article where I described missing out on 22,000% ...