Difficulties with face-to-face contact, shrinking access to credit and volatility of markets have all put the brakes on M&A activity.
Compared to 2019, USA annualised M&A value 2020 is down by half. In Australia, using similar but not identical criteria, number of transactions has decreased by 28% but individual value is higher.
However, a significant number of participants and potential participants interviewed by the Harvard Business Review in the first half of 2020 indicated the crisis, in their opinion, presented unique and favourable opportunities.
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