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% ...

Merger activity remained steady last week with four new deals announced and three deals completed. The Genworth Financial (GNW) deal was finally officially terminated last week after years of delays. We tracked all the ups and downs for well over ...

Merger activity decreased last week with four new deals announced and eight deals completed. There was a significant drop in SPAC activity last week with only two new SPAC IPOs filed and four SPAC business combinations announced. We added Brookfield Property ...

We live in very interesting times if you are an event-driven investor. On the one hand we had the partial implosion in SPACs that caused many of them to swing from trading at a premium to NAV to go the ...