COVID-19 and M&A: The Pandemic’s Impact on M&A Transactions – Part One of a Two-Part Series
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all aspects of business in the United States, M&A transactions in particular. The global IPO market ground to a halt in March of 2020, and corresponding developments in the M&A market were felt almost immediately.[1] By the end of March 2020, M&A levels for the first quarter of 2020 had…