By Alexander Svanidze, Ava Singer, Ryan Leo, Julianna Zelnhefer (Boston University); Giuseppe Mazza, Alvaro Aguilada De Nalda (ESADE) Photo: Eduardo Soares Overview of the deal Acquirer: Fifth Third Bancorp Target:  Comerica Inc. Implied Equity Value: $10.9 billion Total Transaction Size:  $10.9 billion   Closed date:  Expected Q1 2026   Target advisor: Goldman Sachs (Financial) and Sullivan & Cromwell (Legal)   Acquirer advisor:  J.P. Morgan (Lead Financial), Keefe, Bruyett

By Arthus Marande, Christopher Putnis, Namien Koné, Mattia Colombo (ESCP); Freya ZHANG, Jacky CHAN, Sharon Liu, Akshi Bansal, Chak Li (HKUST). Photo: Khanh Nguyen Overview of the deal Acquirer: Blackstone, TPG, and other minorities (ADIA, GIC) Target:  Hologic, Inc. Implied Equity Value: $17.67bn Total Transaction Size:  $18.3bn (EV) Closed date:  Pending; expected H1 2026 (45-day go-shop in the agreement) Target advisor: Citi (Financial); Kirkland & Ellis (Legal); Ropes & G

By Anastasia Malikova, Dennis Malaj, Gauri Khanna, Sarah Lee (LSE); Aman Prasad, Ibrahim Demir, Jiaqi Tang, Oli Greenhalgh (University of Birmingham) Photo: Florian Olivo Overview of the deal Acquirer: PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners Target: Electronic Arts (EA) Total Transaction Size: $55 billion Closed Date : Expected in Q1 FY27 Target Advisors: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (Financial); Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (Legal) Acquirer Advisors : J.P. Morgan Securities LL

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By Edward Fung, Freya Zhang, Kelvin Chan (HKUST); Terry Zhang, George Luo, Leo Wu (UBC) Photo: Bloomberg Overview of the deal Acquirer: ...

By Edward Fung, Freya Zhang, Henry Yum, Sanghyeon Kim (HKUST); Moritz Ibe, Avital Anoff, Lukas Ehrlich, Annant Bhargava (University of St...

By Aman Prasad, Andrea Defilippi, Jase Lall, Jill Shah, Sharmell Sonia D’Silva (University of Birmingham); Terry Zhang, George Luo (The...

By Edward Mazin, Ryan Trachuk, Olin Duncan, Charlie Hogshire, Caden Viehe, Brendan McNulty (UCLA); Amarthya Chandrappa, Howard Fang,...

By Aman Prasad, Andrea Defilippi, Jase Lall, Jill Shah, Sharmell Sonia D’Silva (University of Birmingham) Photo: Richard B. Levine...

By Jens Bager, Sam Elfström, Elliot Christophers (Stockholm School of Economics); Annabel Lai, Edward Fung, Kelvin Chan, Krist Ou (Hong...

By Zoe Thaller, Arthus Marande (ESCP); Amya Hillis, Abraham Vongkhamdy, Irene Souny Bihr, Leo Fridjhon, Janira Martinez, Christian...

By Moritz Ibe, Ben Preece, Avital Anoff, Annant Bhargava (University of St Andrews); Haci Eren Sidar, Leon Gaster, Adalia Melvin, Aviral...

By Jack Liang, Anastasia Malikova, Shir Lyn Lau, Hunter Pang (LSE); Maximilien Kender, Jules Bedrossian and Amin Ouamar (HEC Paris) Photo:...

By Sam Elfström, Elliot Christophers and Jens Bager (Stockholm School of Economics); Zoe Thaller, Nesrine Gharbe, Stanislas Chamaud, and...

By James Searle, Greg Dargue, Cameron Hansell, Ben Motamed (Durham University); Aviral Jain, Leon Gaster, Adalia Melvin, Haci Eren Sidar...

By Yuyu Huang, Kelly Liu, Jenny Sun, Henry Yao (John Hopkins University) ; Pierre Caye, Cédrik Nadeau (McGill University) Photo: ...

By Edward Mazin (UCLA), Adam Bernabeu, Mahaut Bonnet de Roovere and Malo Inizan (HEC Paris) Photo: Ahmer Kalam (Unsplash) Overview of...

By Kevin Xu, Nancy Huang (Melbourne University), Annabel Lai, Sanghyeon Kim, Freya Zhang, Edward Fung (HKUST University). Photo: Markus...

By Pierre Caye (McGill University), Jonathan Lui, Erica Chan, Hunter Pang, Lasheeka Ramesh (London School of Economics) Photo: Thomas...

By Rui Ren Lee, Ardia Daniswara, Varun Vinay Iyengar, Wei Kai Lim (KCL) & Mikolaj Borowiak, Argyro Charizona, Angelo Passaro, Rares...