While first-quarter data document the start of an M&A slowdown, we’re also beginning to see the outlines of some other, potentially more significant changes. As expected, mergers and acquisitions market players in recent days have announced that M&A has been put “on hold” and that we shouldn’t expect a recovery until after the second quarter.
It was only on March 11 that the World Health Organization declared that the novel coronavirus outbreak was a pandemic. With that in mind, first-quarter data cannot fully illustrate its impacts on the M&A market. The first-quarter Bloomberg Global M&A Legal League ...