<br />
&A<br />
Mergers & Acquisitions<br />
Outlook Survey 2018/2019<br />
In our 14th annual survey, we polled senior<br />
executives across the nation—CEOs, CFOs,<br />
owners, managing directors and other<br />
professionals involved in M&A activity<br />
within their respective firms—to measure<br />
their experiences and outlook on mergers<br />
and acquisitions in the coming year.<br />
We would like to thank all survey<br />
respondents for their time and the<br />
insights they shared for this report.<br />
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ECONOMIC OPTIMISM FUELS<br />
A VIGOROUS M&A MARKET<br />
Optimism is soaring to the highest levels in the 14-year<br />
history of Dykema’s annual M&A Outlook Survey. The<br />
portion of respondents who believe that the M&A market<br />
will strengthen in the next 12 months jumped to 65 percent<br />
from the mid to high 30s, where it stood over the previous<br />
several years. Negative sentiment, which had held steady at<br />
about 20 pe<a title="Dykema M&A Booklet 2018 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/29b65966?page=1"> &A Mergers & Acquisitions Outlook Survey 2018/201</a>
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