This year’s M&A Report offers a detailed review of the M&A market and outlook, including a breakdown by various geographies and industry sectors. We examine what might be in store with antitrust and CFIUS under the Trump...more
2/13/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
CFIUS ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Defense Strategies ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Information Reports ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Merger Controls ,
Merger Reviews ,
Mergers ,
Premerger Notifications ,
Private Equity ,
Purchase Price ,
Purchase Price Adjustment ,
Venture Capital
While the 2022 M&A market was buoyed by deal carryover from 2021 and more conducive market conditions in the first half of the year, the 2023 M&A market felt the impact of the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive interest rate...more
3/22/2024
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Capital Markets ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Financial Markets ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Mergers ,
Safe Harbors ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Takeovers ,
Venture Capital
Senior officials at the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have made clear that they will not entertain or will sharply limit resolutions of merger investigations...more
Market Review and Outlook -
Slowing economic growth, equity market volatility, stubborn inflation, rising interest rates and geopolitical tensions combined to create a hostile environment for M&A activity in 2022, with...more
The outbreak of COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2020 inflicted an unprecedented shock on the global economy. In the first half of the year, growth stalled, the US unemployment rate reached its highest level since the Great...more
As we reported in COVID-19: Revisiting Shareholder Rights Plans, the turmoil in U.S. equity markets created by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many companies facing depressed stock prices, leaving them vulnerable to...more
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the efforts around the globe to contain its spread have resulted in dramatic business disruptions and economic turmoil, raising many new considerations for parties participating in proposed or...more
4/23/2020
/ Acquisitions ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Defense Strategies ,
Hostile Takeover ,
Mergers ,
Poison Pill ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Management ,
Shareholder Activism ,
Strategic Planning
The turmoil in US equity markets created by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many companies facing depressed stock prices, leaving them vulnerable to unsolicited acquisition proposals or activist activity, which has led...more
Despite generally favorable macroeconomic conditions, high levels of cash among strategic acquirers and low interest rates, the number of reported M&A transactions and deal value worldwide both declined for the second...more