Lauren Thomas reports on M&A and shareholder activism for The Wall Street Journal in New York. She and her colleagues consistently break market-moving news about the biggest deals, from Exxon ...

Financiers, ready for dealmaking, are no longer scared to embrace the former president.

people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal’s Lauren Thomas. Solventum is expected to draw takeover interest from private equity and strategic buyers, the sources said.

The epic postelection rally augurs big, lucrative opportunities, according to investors and analysts.

Pay for bankers and traders had been weighed down by higher interest rates and economic uncertainty.

Investors are set to approve the $9.6 billion deal that some shareholders had opposed as too low.

Gerry Baker is Editor at Large of The Wall Street Journal. His weekly column for the editorial page, “Free Expression,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Tuesday. Mr. Baker is also host ...

Jimmy Vielkind covers New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal’s U.S. News section. His stories often look at the impact of state policies on the ...

marked in the watershed year of 1776 by Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith's “Wealth of Nations.” So over the past century and into the next, the Journal stands for ...

Thomas Gryta covers General Electric and corporate news for The Wall Street Journal in New York. His coverage spans how companies navigate the changing economy and society along with financial and ...

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Before moving to the Journal's Arena section in 2014, she was the paper's economics news editor and then a reporter in its economics bureau. Brenda Cronin at The Wall Street Journal Skip to Main ...