M&A Trends and Insights: Is the Market Picking Up?

The world’s economy changed dramatically in 2008 and has been capricious in the first few months of 2009. On an encouraging note, lower valuations may make this a good time to buy, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is picking up.

Susan E. Pravda, Chair of Foley’s Emerging Technologies Industry Team, and Gabor Garai, Chair of the firm’s Private Equity & Venture Capital Practice, explored the current state of and trends in the capital and M&A markets.

Topics discussed included:

• Current capital market conditions and their effect on M&A deals
  
• Current valuation multiples and how buyers are financing transactions
  
• The types of deals that are getting done — and how
  
• Industries that are seeing the most activity
  
• Changes in buyer and seller approaches to closing deals
  
• The state of the private equity deal market

M&A Trends and Insights: Is the Market Picking Up? is part of the Foley Executive Briefing Series.