Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Providing tools and resources to start, grow and manage your business. In acquisitions of privately held companies, an acquisition ...

We develop a search-based theory of mergers and acquisitions with heterogeneous firms and endogenous search complementarities. We use this model to understand how merger incentives and the firm size ...