Ariel Deckelbaum and Jackie Cohen Discuss Prospects for 2024 M&A Activity in Law360

Difficult market factors, like inflation and high interest rates, made for a slow deal market in 2023. But there is reason to be optimistic that M&A activity will rebound in the new year, according to mergers & acquisitions partners Jackie Cohen and Ariel Deckelbaum in a Law360 article.

“If I look at my practice now compared to what I was looking at last year [at this time], the pipeline of business is much stronger. There are more people interested in financing these deals… and less of a valuation gap between buyer and seller expectations,” Jackie said.

Ariel concurred: “there’s a lot of pent-up demand for M&A, whether it’s on the strategic or private equity side… an ongoing deferred sense of optimism, if you will.”