By Tristan Rice, partner at SI Partners
In the first few months of the pandemic, the prognosis for M&A was dire.
Large accounting firms were furloughing entire M&A teams, April brought the first week since 2004 that no merger worth more than $1bn (£770m) was announced.
The world was – and still is – experiencing the most severe economic downturn since The Great Depression.
Time for the plethora of corporate finance houses that have thrived in a decade of digital disruption and growth to shut up shop, then? Well, apparently not.
Granted, the global marcoms holding companies have put pretty much all M&A on hold.
After all, the optics of spending millions on new talent while many
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