Despite rising valuations, the RIA industry has just wrapped another record-setting year for M&A. As firms race to consolidate, the real challenge often begins after the ink dries, with the ...
Why do firms acquire other firms? Ronald Coase answered this in 1937. Firms exist because organizing activity internally costs less than coordinating through market transactions. Every acquisition ...
When clients are informed of a pending merger, their primary interest is not the new firm name, logo, or org chart, Linda T. Sanders and Cory Strandson write. When Troutman Pepper Locke formed last ...