The world’s largest hotel firm, which boasts more than 5,500 venues and 1.1m rooms worldwide, has been created as Marriott has acquired Starwood Hotels & Resorts for $12.2bn.
Graham Carberry, MD of defence and security at Livingstone Corporate Finance, talks about the rise of cyber due diligence and why it is important for businesses that are going into a sale to have a robust IT system.
The launch of an incubator focused on online gambling startups has coincided with the news that bookmakers Paddy Power and Betfair are planning a possible merger to become a global giant.
The first quarter of 2015 will go down as the richest first quarter for mergers and acquisitions since Q1 2007. However, DAV Management MD Charlie Mayes is convinced that investors will be taking far less risks.
By David Craik
Established as a way of determining whether particular mergers and acquisitions might have a detrimental effect on a specific sector, we look at the finer details of the Competition Markets Authority.
Yoox Group, an Italian online store selling out-of-season luxury fashion, has agreed to a €3.2bn merger with Net-a-Porter.
