M&A activity in the USA has been relatively strong through the end of 2020 and 1Q21. In 2020, many deals that were delayed due to the onset of Covid were closed in 3Q and 4Q. Concerns over the new Democratic leadership and potential plans to raise capital gains taxes on the sale of businesses have accelerated demand for transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the negative side, many companies saw dips in their revenue and profit in 2020 and delayed transactions until they could get back to pre-Covid levels.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 M&A activity in the USA has been relatively strong through the end of 2020 and 1Q21. In 2020, many deals that were delayed due to the onset of Covid were closed in 3Q and 4Q. Concerns over the new Democratic leadership and potential plans to raise capital gains taxes on the sale of businesses have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exg-consulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Likewise, the market for senior debt has been very tight, so some leveraged buy-outs have been pushed back or else have relied more heavily on equity capital.
Post by Andrew Heitner, ALCON PARTNERS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"