We caught up with AIG to get their take on where M&A insurance is heading and how to reduce “unknown matters".

Chinese investors have been on a buying spree in Europe with a significant rise in deals in 2016. Yet the tone of regulators both in Germany and China looks set to tighten conditions for cross-border transactions. 

Though sharing a geographic region, the direction in which mergers and acquisitions are trending in CEE and Russia is very different.

An overview of key statistics and trends in the Nordic mergers and acquisitions environment, both domestically and internationally.

9 years after the financial crisis of 2008-9, patience is growing continuously thin on the market’s recovery.  While there have been several large increases in German M&A activity in recent years, the levels experienced pre-crisis have yet to be seen.  Fortunately for those waiting for this recovery, the 2016 trend report from Mergermarket offers several promising trends.  

How can you tell if a company is worth buying? Cass Business School and Intralinks recently conducted a research project based on a 23-year study of 34,000 firms and 14,000 deals to discover just that. We asked Philip Whitchelo, Vice President of Product Marketing at Intralinks to summarise the findings. 

In this guest article, we asked Instinctif Partners for their expertise on communicating a major transaction effectively - and why it matters now more than ever.

Ahead of the upcoming Deal Drivers Ireland Forum on 14 September in Dublin, Deloitte's Partner and Head of M&A Anya Cummins talks to Mergermarket about recent drivers and opportunities for the M&A in the country and how Irish M&A will look in a post Brext world.