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Jim Langston Discusses M&A Expectations for 2025 With The Wall Street Journal
February 10, 2025
Corporate partner Jim Langston spoke with The Wall Street Journal about the M&A forecast for this year following the least active January for deal announcements in the past two years. “The much anticipated M&A tsunami of 2025 has yet to make landfall, but the conditions are all still ripe for that to arrive later this year,” Jim says.
While the London Stock Exchange Group has reported that less than 900 deals were announced in the U.S. last month – down from over 1,200 in January 2024 and over 1,500 the year before that – Jim says that, historically, M&A activity doesn’t increase after a U.S. presidential inauguration until the start of the second quarter.
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