. While there have been studies that have partially investigated the importance of deal completion, we argue that firms could … cumulative success could reduce the deal completion time; that is, the time from the announcement of the deal to its resolution … reduced deal completion time. …

This paper aims to show that information asymmetry plays a vital role in the post-M&A performance-time until deal … completion nexus. The findings are that the due diligence hypothesis and the overdue hypothesis proposed and tested in Thompson …