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Disrupting The Conventional Wisdom Of Nonprofit Mergers And Acquisitions
A constellation is a system with a center hub of infrastructure—that unifying, balanced axis that creates stability and coordination. Prior to founding Inperium, a company that conventional wisdom views as a nonprofit consolidator (a…
WENDEL: Wendel completes the acquisition of a controlling stake in Committed Advisors, adding expertise in secondary markets to its third-party asset management business
PRESS RELEASE – APRIL 22ND, 2026 Wendel completes the acquisition of a controlling stake in Committed Advisors, adding expertise in secondary markets to its third-party asset management business Strengthens partnership with BNP…
United Airlines CEO Stirred Up A Hornet's Nest With Merger Hint
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby speaks during a media event at LAX in March. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon) A week after a report surfaced that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby “floated” the idea of an American Airlines/United Airlines…
'Jury Duty: Company Retreat' Submits 19 Actors for Emmys, Including Sia; Participant Anthony Norman Ineligible (EXCLUSIVE)
The jury may still be out on whether the Emmys will embrace “Company Retreat” — but Amazon is going for it anyway. Prime Video has revealed its Emmy strategy for the second season of the reality hoax series exclusively to…
Breaking: Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile discuss combining in a potential record-setting merger
In what could result in the largest public Merger & Acquisition (M&A) deal in history, Bloomberg says that Deutsche Telekom is thinking about combining with T-Mobile. The German carrier is currently the majority stockholder of T-Mobile owning 53.7%…
Trump opposes United Airlines merger with American Airlines
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he opposed a possible merger between United Airlines and American Airlines. Trump was asked during an early morning appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box about a proposed merger between the two airline giants.
US Airlines Need an M&A Shake-Up, Not a Bailout
Nobody should want the government to operate or even invest in an airline. But that doesn't mean the Transportation Department can't provide a guiding hand to keep the industry's competition robust and maybe help undo some of the harm from past…
Korea's military academy merger plan sparks debate
A government push to integrate Korea's Army, Navy and Air Force academies is gaining traction, but so is the backlash. What began as a proposal to modernize officer training has evolved into a broader debate about the structure of the military and…
T-Mobile's biggest shareholder weighs merger to create telecom giant: Sources
– Deutsche Telekom is considering a full combination with its American arm T-Mobile US, a move that would create a multinational telecom group and rank as the largest-ever public mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal, people with knowledge of…
SPAC Hall Chadwick Acquisition Corp II Seeks to Raise $265M in IPO
The blank-check company, incorporated in the Cayman Islands, it plans to sell 26.5 million units at $10 apiece, according to a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each unit contains one share and half a warrant to buy an…
The funnel flip: Why AI forces a bottom-up acquisition strategy
The industry has been building top-down for 30 years. Start with awareness, get in front of as many people as possible, and work them down through the acquisition funnel. The logic made sense in the broadcast era, and it wasn't entirely wrong in…
Freehills, Ashurst mark US mergers with bumper crop of local partners
Australian partners dominated this year's promotion rounds at law giants Ashurst and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, representing around half of all new appointees at the now global firms, both fresh from mergers with a US bedfellow. HSF Kramer…
Capital Group CEO Sees More M&A Coming for Active Asset Managers
The global asset management industry is poised for more consolidation as active funds react to being squeezed by passive investment products, according to Capital Group Chief Executive Officer Mike Gitlin. “Last year was the most amount of…
Peoples Bancorp: Citizens Acquisition Adds Scale In Attractive Fashion (NASDAQ:PEBO)
Peoples Bancorp delivered solid Q1 results, with margin expansion and a 2.4% dividend increase, reaching a new 52-week high. PEBO's acquisition of Citizens National enhances its deposit base, geographic presence, and interest margins while…
Are WA's universities 'scaremongering' over merger plans?
Some of Western Australia's biggest universities have been accused by the state's tertiary education minister of employing “scaremongering” tactics in the face of a possible merger, amid claims the status quo exploits international…
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