Listen to a Podcast About Mergers and Acquisitions

Understand the high-stakes world of M&A — deal structures, due diligence, valuation methods, hostile takeovers, and the strategic logic behind corporate combinations.

Global M&A activity reached $5.1 trillion in 2021, the highest ever recorded, driven by low interest rates and post-pandemic recovery spending. Studies by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey consistently find that 70-90% of acquisitions fail to create value for the acquirer, with cultural integration being the most commonly cited reason for failure — the AOL-Time Warner merger of 2000, valued at $164 billion, is frequently cited as the worst deal in corporate history. The poison pill defense, invented by attorney Martin Lipton in 1982, allows target company shareholders to purchase additional shares at a discount if a hostile bidder acquires a certain ownership threshold, diluting the acquirer's stake and making hostile takeovers far more expensive.

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