Financial Services M&A
By: Gurneek Gill (McGill), Francois Herman (McGill), Juan Bátiz (McGill), Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: Marga Santoso (Unsplash) I....
M&A Trend Reports
- Feb 8
- 7 min
Aerospace and Defense M&A
By: Francois Herman (McGill), Gurneek Gill (UCL), and Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: John McArthur (Unsplash) I. Industry Background...
- Feb 2
- 7 min
Consumer Markets M&A
By: Francois Herman (McGill University), Gurneek Gill (UCL), and Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: Hanson Lu (Unsplash) I. Industry...
- Dec 11, 2021
- 7 min
Energy M&A
By: Francois Herman (McGill), Gurneek Gill (UCL), and Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: Jason Blackeye (Unsplash) I. Industry Background...
- Oct 21, 2021
- 9 min
Enterprise Software M&A
By Mustafa Bayramli (UPenn), Gurneek Gill (UCL), Eve Bouffard (McGill), and Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: Marvin Meyer (Unsplash) I....
- Sep 15, 2021
- 6 min
Healthcare M&A
By Mustafa Bayramli (UPenn), Gurneek Gill (UCL), and Abilash Prabhakaran (MIT) Photo: National Cancer Institute (Unsplash) I. Industry...
- Jun 30, 2021
- 6 min
Automotive M&A
By Mustafa Bayramli (Wharton), Gurneek Gill (UCL), Nihat Anwar (Stockholm School of Economics) Photo: Carlos Aranda (Unsplash)...
- May 20, 2021
- 6 min
Gaming M&A
By Mustafa Bayramli (Wharton), Gurneek Gill (UCL), David Summers (London School of Economics) Photo: Venson Chou (Unsplash) I. Industry...
- Apr 30, 2021
- 9 min
FinTech M&A
By Nihat Anwar (SSE), Mustafa Bayramli (Wharton), Gurneek Gill (UCL) Photo: PiggyBank (Unsplash) I. Industry Background By innovating and...
- Apr 4, 2021
- 7 min
Cybersecurity M&A
By Nihat Anwar (SSE), Mustafa Bayramli (Wharton), Gurneek Gill (UCL) Photo: Dan Nelson (Unsplash) I. Industry Background Today,...
- Feb 1, 2021
- 7 min
Pharmaceutical M&A
By Gurneek Gill (UCL), Nihat Anwar (SSE), Mustafa Bayramli (Wharton) Photo: Myriam Zilles (Unsplash) I. Industry Background The...
- Dec 8, 2020
- 8 min
EdTech M&A
By Nihat Anwar (SSE), Gurneek Gill (UCL), Mustafa Bayramli (Wharton), and Roshni Padhi (Stanford) Photo: Kimberly Farmer (Unsplash) I....
- Nov 7, 2020
- 10 min
Recharged M&A Activity in the Semiconductor Industry
By Gurneek Gill (UCL), Mustafa Bayramli (Wharton), Amarins Laanstra-Corn, Roshni Padhi (Stanford) Photo: Christian Wiediger (Unsplash)...
- Oct 9, 2020
- 6 min
The Acceleration of Gaming M&A
By Amarins Laanstra-Corn, Roshni Padhi (Stanford University), Gurneek Gill (University College London), Mustafa Bayramli (University of...
- Sep 8, 2020
- 11 min
Retail M&A Deals Unravel in the Face of Coronavirus
By: Amarins Laanstra-Corn, Winston Shum, Roshni Padhi (Stanford) and Kritika Venkateswaran, Sreeja Mamillapalli, Aman Singla (NYU) Photo:...
- Aug 12, 2020
- 7 min
Antitrust in the Digital Age
By: Amarins Laanstra-Corn and Roshni Padhi (Stanford University) Photo: Ian Hutchinson (Unsplash) Introduction On July 29th, 2020, four...
- Jul 26, 2020
- 5 min
Food Delivery: The Consolidation Saga Continues
By: Roshni Padhi (Stanford University) Photo: Rowan Freeman (Unsplash) Background In the span of one year, five large players in the food...
- May 21, 2020
- 6 min
The Fall in Cross-Border Deals
During the last decade, the need for companies to internationalise their supply chains in a search of competitive (cost) advantage...
- May 13, 2020
- 4 min
Growth in Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACS) are companies with “no or nominal operations and either no or nominal assets, assets...
- Apr 29, 2020
- 5 min
The Fight to Win the Hunger Games
In the food delivery industry, M&A activity and valuations have been at very high levels over the past years.
- Feb 1, 2020
- 6 min
Big Pharma's Patent Panic
Over the past years, large pharmaceutical companies have experienced a deterioration in their ability to grow organically as the investments
- Feb 1, 2020
- 4 min
Specialisation in the Pharmaceuticals Sector
Many companies in the pharmaceutical industry are facing pressure to generate sales and profit while losing ground due to expiring patents a
- Feb 1, 2020
- 4 min
The Rising Prominence of Activist Investors
Investor activism is where an individual or group “purchases large numbers of a public company’s shares and/or tries to obtain seats on the
- Feb 1, 2020
- 5 min
Consolidation is Key for the Automotive Industry
The automotive industry is undergoing unprecedented changes on multiple fronts.
Industry Trend Reports
- May 25, 2021
- 4 min
Emerging Markets News - Africa
By Tim Bamberger (Kings College London) GENERAL NEWS ON AFRICA - TRENDS Economic suffering in the global south triggered by the COVID-19...
- Dec 11, 2020
- 4 min
Emerging Markets News - Latin America
By Sally Marshall (Imperial College London) Photo: Roberto Huczek (Unsplash) Latin America has seen some of the highest Covid-19...
- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
Emerging Markets News - Africa
By Tim Bamberger (Kings College London) GENERAL NEWS ON AFRICA - TRENDS The global pandemic continues to pressure economies and society...
- Oct 1, 2020
- 4 min
Emerging Markets News - Asia
By Sally Marshall (Imperial College London) Photo: Andre Benz (Unsplash) Introduction Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic...
- Aug 31, 2020
- 3 min
Emerging Markets News - Africa
By: Tim Bamberger General News on Africa - Trends The overall trend for emerging markets on the continent of Africa has been on a...
- Aug 26, 2020
- 5 min
Uncertainty in Oil and Gas M&A
By: Winston Shum, Roshni Padhi (Stanford) and Siddharth Tripurani, Akhil Vajjhala, Aman Singla (NYU) Photo: Zbynek Burival (Unsplash)...
- Jun 11, 2020
- 9 min
Impact of COVID-19 on the Private Equity Industry
This report is meant to provide insights on how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the private equity industry in the first quarter...
- May 27, 2020
- 13 min
The Airline Industry’s Collision with Covid-19
Airlines have been able to overcome a wide variety of challenges over the past decade: cut-throat pricing in a highly competitive...
- Feb 1, 2020
- 6 min
The Shrinkage of Public Markets
The shrinkage of public markets is a relatively recent phenomenon and is comprised of two main underlying trends.
