A conglomerate merger is a merger of two firms that have completely unrelated business activities. There are two types of conglomerate mergers: pure, where the two firms continue ...

On 30 April 2026, the European Commission (EC) published a draft of its updated merger guidelines setting out the analytical framework that the ...

Most mergers are engineered for efficiency. Systems are aligned, redundancies eliminated, and structures combined. Yet despite careful planning, most mergers fail to deliver on their strategic promise ...