Driving Change While Respecting Culture in the COVID M&A Environment
We watched with awe and curiosity in 2021 as the global marketplace spent $5.8 trillion on acquisition deals, speeding past the former annual record by $2 trillion. Cash-rich and eager to capture more market share, companies made more than 63,000 transactions, according to a Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance paper, emerging from their 2020 caution to capitalize on soaring stocks, high company valuations, and low interest rates.
