IP Recordals And The Coming Post-COVID Wave Of M&A Activity

Even though mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a broad category for any type of financial transaction resulting in the consolidation of companies or assets, its impact is readily discernable in the economic value it creates through more efficient allocation of corporate resources.

Understandably, M&A activity often rises in a distressed economy, when many acquisition targets face strong headwinds and seek shelter by consolidating, yet the COVID-19 pandemic has not spurred the great number of M&As that this pattern would predict. A recent analysis by business advisors with Deloitte indicates that the high level of economic uncertainty created by the pandemic, combined with government support for many smaller companies over the past year, has kept M&A activity lower than expected in many areas of the world.