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The merger landscape in the United States is shifting once again. After a period marked by stricter antitrust enforcement and skepticism toward merger transactions, recent developments suggest a renewed openness to structural remedies, such as divestitures, to resolve competitive concerns. This evolution in enforcement strategy may signal not only greater regulatory flexibility but also a potential resurgence in corporate dealmaking, including, in some cases, hostile takeovers.
A Shift in the Last 6–12 Months M&A Technology Integrations are changing fast , playbooks are out and thinking on your feet is in. In the past few months, we’ve noticed a pattern: smaller firms being acquired by strategic buyers are arriving at the table with increasingly complex back-office environments. What used to be a relatively straightforward CRM-to-Accounts Payable flow has morphed into a tangled web of integrations, automations, and AI-driven tools.
This blog is going to explore the question: How well did your interview really go? It sounds like this is an extremely easy personal assessment of how you did during that 45 minutes to 1 hour discussion; however, most people don’t know how to truly assess themselves. Let’s explore the interview clues together. My First Question About The Interview The first question I ask of a candidate is, “How long did the interview last?
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In June 2025, there were twelve Rule 2.7 announcements made across the UK public M&A market and five further possible offers announced. Recommended cash offer by HGGC LLC for Inspired plc – £183.6 million – public to private. Recommended cash and share offer by Tritax Big Box REIT plc for Warehouse REIT plc – £485.2 million, and more.
Malik's bullish thesis is driven by the uptick in sovereign AI demand, which refers to nations' efforts to produce and control their own AI infrastructure.
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Malik's bullish thesis is driven by the uptick in sovereign AI demand, which refers to nations' efforts to produce and control their own AI infrastructure.
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Citadel Securities has named Scott Rubner the firm’s new head of equity and equity derivatives strategy. Rubner will be based out of Miami in his new role and joins the firm after almost ten years at Goldman Sachs, where he most recently worked as a managing director, covering global equity macro, emerging markets, equity derivatives and tactical flow of funds.
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In the frenetic world of finance, few instruments have sparked as much debate, and perhaps as much misunderstanding, as the Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC. Often maligned as speculative vehicles or the exclusive domain of Wall Street titans, SPACs have, in recent years, fallen out of public favor and seen a significant slowdown in activity.
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Droit, a technology firm serving institutional clients, has received patent approval for an upgrade to its global regulatory decision-making platform ‘Adept’, allowing users to evaluate the permissibility of trades and preview the incoming impact of upcoming regulatory changes. Brock Arnason Specifically, the upgrade – named ‘explore mode’ – concerns decision-making across pre- and post-trade controls, allowing for full traceability in each step of traders’ transactions.
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