Thursday, September 22, 2011

Mergers And Acquisitions Is Making A Comeback

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Despite all of the economic challenges facing our country at the moment, mergers and acquisitions activity (“M&A”) is showing signs of improvement. During the second quarter of the year—the most recent period for which statistics are available—over 2,000 M&A transactions were successfully completed. (The value of these transactions exceeded over $260 billion.) For the first half of the year, the total exceeds $620 billion across 4,100 transactions. It’s expected that the remainder of the year will see similar levels of M&A activity. Yes, lawyers and investment bankers have been busy.

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