Appeals by stockholders for an increase in the value of their holdings have prompted a slew of large corporate stock buybacks on the one hand but also resulted in executives feeling obliged to drive value through expansion.
"The quickest way to grow market share and revenue is to add that of your rivals to your own," said Linda Robeson, senior Vice-President of Corporate ...
Acquisition International reports that the economic slowdown that has weighed on China and Southeast Asia in 2015 has not prevented deal-making in the region reaching all-time highs.
Acute volatility on the two mainland Chinese equity markets, the Shanghai Composite and the Shenzhen Composite, wiped trillions of dollars off the val ...
Acquisition International reports that 2015 will see near-record levels of corporate mergers and acquisitions and that 2016 is shaping up to be the biggest-ever in dollar value terms.
So far this year, the value of M&A activity has been worth US$4.02 trillion, US$600 billion short of the all-time record of US$4.61 trillion set back ...