Private Equity, Federal Reserve, Acquisitions

Credit Conditions | Q4 2024

McDermott Will & Emery on 3/3/2025

Welcome to this edition of Credit Conditions, a quarterly publication from McDermott Will & Emery that analyzes recent debt market trends. The fourth quarter of 2024 marked a pivotal moment in the debt market, as the...more

Credit Conditions: Key Debt Market Trends

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/12/2024

Credit Conditions | Q1 2024: High interest rates in 2023 posed significant challenges for dealmakers and debt markets. However, 2024 brings optimism with anticipated rate cuts and improving market conditions, leading to a...more

Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q3 2024

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/21/2024

In the healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, while deal volumes varied across different sectors, by and large the sure and steady pace of deal volume in Q2 continued into Q3. Moreover, several positive...more

The Outlook for M&A Activity in Q4 2024

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/27/2024

In a highly anticipated move, the Federal Reserve announced an interest rate cut on September 18, reducing rates by 50 basis points to a range of 4.75-5%. This is the first rate cut in four years after interest rates hit a...more

Private Equity Market Update - August 2022

Goodwin on 8/18/2022

Market Overview - Q2 2022 - Downturn in Credit Markets: In its continued effort to combat rising inflation, the Federal Reserve Bank raised its benchmark interest rate in each of March, May, June and July of this year by...more

"First-Half Activity Energizes US Capital Markets in 2014"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/28/2014

The U.S. equity and debt markets experienced a strong first half of the year. In the first quarter, the U.S. IPO market was the busiest since 2000, more than doubling the number of IPOs from the same period last year. ...more