Eleventh Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre Conference

Call for papers

Following the success of the tenth conference in 2026, we are pleased to announce that the Eleventh Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC) Conference will be held at Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London on Monday 14 June 2027 in cooperation with ECGI. The conference organizers invite authors to submit original, theoretical and empirical papers covering issues related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including all aspects of the M&A process, from deal structuring and financing to post-merger integration, as well as shareholder activism, regulatory developments, domestic and cross-border transactions, and corporate social responsibility.

PAPER SUBMISSION: The submission deadline is Friday 22 January 2027 at 10pm (GMT). 

There is no submission fee. To be eligible for submission, the paper must still be at a revisable stage (i.e. neither forthcoming nor close to being accepted at a journal) by the date of the conference. 

Please email a pdf version of your paper to BayesMARC@citystgeorges.ac.uk. The file name must be: [presenting author’s last name]_[shortened paper title] (for example, Smith_Deal Integration.pdf). Please include “MARC2027” in the subject of your email. We expect to notify authors about acceptances by 25 March 2027.

STRUCTURE: Sessions will take place between 8:30am and 5:30pm on Monday 14 June 2027 with a keynote speech during lunch and reception following the conference. The conference will be held in-person at Bayes Business School, and all presenters and discussants are expected to attend in person. The conference dinner for presenters, discussants, and program committee members will be held in the evening of the conference day.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Kenneth Ahern (University of Southern California), Marco Becht (Université libre de Bruxelles & ECGI), Audra Boone (Colorado State University & ECGI), Claudia Custodio (Imperial College & ECGI), Éric de Bodt (Norwegian School of Economics), B. Espen Eckbo (Dartmouth College & ECGI), Eliezer Fich (Drexel University & ECGI), Andrey Golubov (University of Toronto & ECGI), Jarrad Harford (University of Washington & ECGI), Tim Jenkinson (University of Oxford & ECGI), Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics & ECGI), Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard University), Kai Li (University of British Columbia & ECGI), Song Ma (Yale University), Ronald Masulis (University of New South Wales & ECGI), Micah Officer (Loyola Marymount University & ECGI), Robert Parrino (University of Texas at Austin), Raghavendra Rau (University of Cambridge), Stefano Rossi (Bocconi University & ECGI), Henri Servaes (London Business School & ECGI), Denis Sosyura (Arizona State University), Sudi Sudarsanam (Cranfield University), Karin Thorburn (Norwegian School of Economics & ECGI), Wenyu Wang (Indiana University & Vanderbilt).

ABOUT MARC: The M&A Research Centre, founded in 2008, is a breakthrough: the first time a major business school has established a focused centre for research into the global M&A industry. With its proximity to the City of London, Bayes Business School is perfectly placed to maintain close contacts with M&A bankers, lawyers, consultants, accountants and other key players. A number of corporations, regulators, professional services firms, exchanges and universities have been using MARC for swift access to the latest research and practical ideas. MARC is proud to have its Sponsors including BP, ICAEW, KPMG, Mergermarket, SS&C Intralinks, and WTW as research partners. In 2011, MARC was chosen by AACSB to be the 'Spotlight' feature in its Research/Scholarship Resource Centre. Link to article: AACSB Spotlight: MARC, City University, London