Comment / M&A horror show: Forward Air + Omni Logistics

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By Alessandro Pasetti

01/11/2023

Entertaining to watch so far, and then some.

Very much so.

Other than that, however, there are hot new developments in the Forward Air + Omni deal less than a week* after the Forward Air rollercoaster on the stock market.

(*Breath-taking: from +16% in pre-market to flat and then in the red in a few hours. In case you missed it, read our ’Forward Air to call off Omni Logistics deal?’ from 26 October.)

Yesterday, 31 October, quite unluckily in fact – karma can ...

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