PwC Partner, Corporate Finance, M&A Carveout & integration, PwC election & remuneration comm.
A few intensive weeks, meeting many Swedish global companies, talking at various M&A events, as well as our own Corporate M&A Roundtable, has provided a few recurring topics: 1) The role of the M&A team keeps broadening, into portfolio management and supply chain resilience etc. 2) M&A outlook blurred by * few structured auctions relative to bilateral processes, * IPO window still closed but opening * still considerable gaps in valuation bring many processes to a halt 3) M&A sell-side/carveout an increasingly important tool to finance investments in core business and AI/newTech 4) US buyers finding EU Target attractive at lower multiples, whilst EU companies look to US to expand presence on-site Brave new world!
