Michal Berkner, partner of international law firm Cooley,
comments on a great year for M&A.
Conditions continue to be ripe for high levels of cross border
M&A activity in the months ahead – cash rich corporates,
Private Equity and funds with unprecedented levels of dry power and
ticking investment clocks, financing available on favourable terms,
CEOs eager to grow their businesses faster than would be possible
organically and a general acceptance that the uncertain regulatory
and geopolitical conditions of recent times are the new normal.
I expect to see more inbound activity into the UK, especially
out of the US due to the Trump tax reforms significantly lowering
corporate tax rates and leading to the repatriation of cash trapped
outside the US.
