For the insurance industry, the need to find new opportunities for sustainable and profitable growth has become imperative. Technology is delivering unprecedented insights at scale, new markets and segments are rapidly created, and new customer value propositions are forming. Insurance leaders recognize....

The dealmaking landscape has long seen a shortage of women, due in part to gender inequality and issues involving unequal pay, uneven support, and bias. A wave of trailblazing women is working to change the imbalance, however. Through efforts at law schools and business schools, as well as at their own....

M&A is playing a critical role as healthcare companies seek to adapt and thrive in a fast-changing marketplace. Pressure to lower costs and adjust to value-based care models, as well as meet the demands of a technology-driven world, have created a need for buyers to seek healthcare targets capable of....

Mergermarket is pleased to present Outlook for M&A in Israel: Momentum builds on record-breaking 2017, published in association with White & Case. The report, which includes a survey of 58 senior-level executives in Israel, provides an insight into deal trends and highlights the challenges and opportunities....

April witnessed three of the six largest megadeals since the beginning of 2018, fueling a 40.9% year-over-year surge in global value. The proposed merger of US mobile carriers T-Mobile and Sprint, along with Comcast’s bid for UK broadcaster Sky, helped the Telecommunications sector gain a 34x increase....

Mergermarket is pleased to present the third edition of M&A in Ukraine, published in association with Aequo. This report provides invaluable insights into key trends in Ukraine’s M&A landscape and an outlook for 2018 and beyond.   The Ukrainian economy in 2017 continued to build on the progress....

Companies and their investors are facing numerous hot-button corporate governance issues in 2018. Dual-class share structures are coming under scrutiny as CEOs look to maintain leadership without owning a majority stake. A shift toward private fundraising has brought with it concerns of less stringent....

The first quarter of 2018 saw global M&A value totaling US$890.6bn, the highest for any Q1 on Mergermarket record. Megadeals such as Cigna's US$67.8bn purchase of pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts helped the quarter’s value surge, with 23 deals valued at US$5bn or more occurring in March....

Less than a decade after Bitcoin launched in 2009, the number of digital coins has skyrocketed — and initial coin offerings (ICOs) have the corporate world considering their merits as a new fundraising tool. But the specter of impending regulations on the horizon and continued volatility in the cryptocurrency....

First quarter 2018 M&A activity surpassed $1 trillion in deals as companies tried to address the pressures of ongoing digital disruption, with strategic divestments high on the agenda.   According to EY’s latest Global Corporate Divestment Study, produced in association with Mergermarket,....