[Reeses]

A whole industry of lawyers, MBAs, and bankers live off corporate marriages and splits. Despite benefiting from their own advice, they have the ears of executives that feel the need every few years to DO SOMETHING!

AI may encourage more splits than marriages, as AI pushes economies of scale to smaller, more nimble companies. Mergers will result in fewer savings due to nobody left to lay off, and only make sense if they create monopolies.

[Nachoman]

Corporate executive believe if you reshuffle the deck, it improves your chances of drawing a royal flush.