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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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FTC, Lawmakers Turn Sour On M&A; Could Innovation Suffer?

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M&A DOA? As PYMNTS reported late last week, the regulator remarked that antitrust enforcers should be on guard against dominant companies buying emerging startups. As PYMNTS reported late last week, the regulator remarked that antitrust enforcers should be on guard against dominant companies buying emerging startups. “A

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Gojek, Grab Renew Merger Talks With SoftBank’s Support

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Six months after merger talks stalled between two of Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing companies, Gojek and Grab Holdings have resumed negotiations, the Financial Times (FT) reported. Previous merger talks stalled, in part, due to opposition from SoftBank, according to FT. But Gojek has proved a resilient rival.

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House GOP Letter Decries M&A Moratorium

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Six Republican lawmakers have opposed a Democratic Party initiative in Congress to ban mergers and acquisitions (M&A) between large companies during the pandemic, according to Reuters. Delrahim, speaking with CNBC , said the idea of a moratorium on mergers was “misguided.”. The Democrats behind the idea include Sen.

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#FA Success Ep 361: Scaling A $2.4B Advisory Enterprise With Debt-Financed Acquisitions Into High-Productivity Pods, With Peter Tiboris

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Peter is a Partner of Park Avenue Capital, an advisory firm affiliated with Northwestern Mutual based in New York City, that oversees $2.4 billion in assets under management for 1,377 client households.

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JPMorgan: Surge In Year-End Global Dealmaking Will Keep M&A Bankers Busy

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The year-end acceleration of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) worldwide will keep bankers busy until the close of 2020, with deals emerging in most regions and industries, Bloomberg reported. . “It It clearly won’t be a long Christmas break for M&A bankers,” Dirk Albersmeier , co-head of M&A, J.P.

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Head Of Facebook M&A Defends Instagram Acquisition

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Amin Zoufonoun, who heads up Facebook’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A), defended the company’s Instagram purchase in a Facebook post amid investigations by lawmakers and regulators, CNBC reported on Thursday (Nov. Elizabeth Warren. The deal closed on the heels of Twitter’s $500 million Instagram bid.