John Weir Close

John Weir Close is an award-winning journalist who has been covering mergers and acquisitions for decades. He is the editor and founder of The M&A Journal. He is also a former editor at The American Lawyer where he ran two magazines, one on M&A and one for in-house law departments. A graduate of Haverford College and the University of Virginia School of Law, Close started his career in Saudi Arabia as a stringer for the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal and an editor at Jeddah's The Arab News. He then became a corporate lawyer and worked in M&A on Wall Street for four years. He's been published in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, The Observer, The American Lawyer, Corporate Control Alert, and Corporate Counsel. He lives in Park Hill, Yonkers and has a son, Tarquin, who lives in San Francisco.