Business Sale shares how M&A activity is expected to remain stable during the second quarter of 2023, despite a host of geopolitical headwinds.

S&P Global Market presents the numbers on how a spate of multibillion-dollar deals in the US and Canada during March pulled corporate M&A activity from a more than yearlong slump.

Shareholder activists in the U.S. started the first quarter with a roar and ended with a whimper, as campaigns outside the U.S. hit a new record.

A great snapshot from PwC Canada's M&A year in review and 2023 outlook which shows that 54% of Canadian corporate leaders are not planning to delay deals in 2023.

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, major retail players are expected to draw on the high levels of accumulated cash to close new Merger & Acquisition deals in 2023, taking advantage of industry multiples at their lowest in the past decade. 

A solid recap from Middle Market Growth highlighting the increased focus on PEG add-on acquisitions in this environment.

Private equity (PE) investments recorded 119 deals valued over USD 2.4 billion, while both volumes and values declined compared to January 2022, there was a 28 per cent increase in deal volumes and a 30 per cent increase in deal values from last month (December 2022) .

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According to data from PwC1, overall global automotive M&A deal volumes from January to mid-November 2022 were down by 18% (approximately 900 deals) compared to 2021, and deal value fell by 62% (US$57 billion) year-over-year.

A new federal law goes into effect March 29, 2023 that conditionally exempts from broker-dealer registration persons who solely intermediate small, private company M&A deals.

Compared to 2021, which had record-breaking levels of M&A activity in the UK, leading to a strong seller’s market and extremely competitive deal processes for resilient assets (and even for less obviously attractive assets), the 2022 UK M&A market experienced a cooling in terms of deal value and volume.

Every January, the industry is flooded with research and analysis trying to predict what the coming year holds for middle-market M&A. 2023 is no different, and if anything, people may be paying closer attention than usual in the midst of broad market uncertainty and a unique economic environment.

2022 saw a steep decline of 29% in total deal value to $2.8 trillion from the $3.9 trillion reported in 2021, according to a latest M&A report from GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Middle-market M&A continues to focus on add-ons, while a $2 billion exit in the energy market also makes headlines.

Corporate development is the process of building the future of a company. It involves exploring new opportunities and creating strategies for using them to grow.

We combed through industry research and talked to three experts to get the skinny on what PE can expect for dealmaking this year.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal origination is the process of identifying, evaluating, and approaching potential target companies for acquisition. In this blog post, we will walk through the process of M&A deal origination from start to finish.

Ari Fuchs of the DAK Group discusses commercial AV mergers-and-acquisitions trends and how integration businesses can capitalize on them.

In a high-inflationary and uncertain economic environment, private equity investors with dry powder to deploy are seeking recession-proof acquisition targets. 

In this blog post, we will provide an overview of the most common terms negotiated in an M&A transaction when buying a business.