Regulatory Climate Chilling Deals: Goldman Sachs’s Lemkau

While the mergers and acquisitions pipeline for the rest of the year “continues to be strong,” according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Gregg Lemkau, the regulatory environment is limiting companies’ ambitions for bigger deals.

“Companies that are thinking about a deal where there might be a risk of antitrust not approving it, are gonna think twice or think three times before they go ahead and do it,” Lemkau said May 17 in an interview with Bloomberg TV, on the sidelines of the Goldman Sachs Leveraged Finance Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. “I think that’s really what’s chilled some of ...