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As the year comes to an end, Baird's Global Investment Banking group reviewed M&A activity from 2024 and made predictions of what to expect in 2025. The assessments and thoughts for what’s to come are outlined in our most recent market update. Read the update here: https://bit.ly/3ZWregb

2025 could be the awaited comeback story for the broader M&A market! 2024 was a year of recalibration for most. We‘ve been ?lucky“ with strong growth in deal flow and value in a flat volume environment and had record pitch activity in 2024. We’re privileged to start 2025 with a very high quality backlog. 2024 saw M&A activity tempered by higher rates, geopolitical uncertainty, and cautious investors. But as the year closed, signs of optimism began to emerge. 2025 is primed to build on this foundation, with several key factors driving momentum: 1??Private equity dominance: Record levels of dry powder (~$4 trillion) are poised to fuel transactions, with sponsors ready to strike in tech, healthcare, and industrials. 2??Economic tailwinds: Easing inflation, stabilizing interest rates, and clearer post-election market dynamics are fostering renewed confidence. 3??Strategic plays: Corporates with strong balance sheets are looking to deploy capital in transformative, high-value deals. At the same time, more efficient and streamlined structures are a key focus, so we expect portfolio clean ups and resulting carve outs as well. 4??Sector-specific growth: Healthcare and tech innovation, energy transition projects, and infrastructure modernization will remain top priorities - all power alleys within what we cover in b2b distribution! With both strategic and financial buyers stepping up, 2025 could redefine the M&A landscape. Explore Baird’s full perspective here.

William Blair has named Stewart Licudi as the firm’s head of European Investment Banking. Based in London, Licudi will lead William Blair’s investment banking advisory activity in Europe, where the firm has seen strong momentum and notable growth in all of its key regions—including the U.K., DACH, Benelux, the Nordics, and Iberia. Licudi brings nearly 30 years of experience working with growth companies, and since joining the firm in 2006 has been involved in more than 75 transactions, unlocking more than $25 billion in capital. Most recently he served as the head of the firm’s London office and before that as a managing director in William Blair’s Financial Sponsors Group. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gU4N9g_S

Following a recent period of travel to several of our offices across Europe and in India in the last few weeks, Marc Ackermann shares some of the key M&A deal themes we are seeing across our investment banking advisory businesses globally. Recent travels included attendance at our annual global Investment Banking conference, this year hosted in Wiesbaden, and included 40 senior M&A professionals with representation from our Investment Banking teams in the UK, France, Germany, the Benelux region, Switzerland, the US, Australia, India and South Africa. In our general experience, the market themes and dynamics in more advanced economies are often leading indicators in the medium term for the corresponding South African sectors. He shares several key themes below, that are currently front of mind across our global investment banking M&A franchise. Read the latest Insight by Investecs' M&A expert Marc Ackermann about Key current international M&A deal themes here: https://lnkd.in/g7-g3Jy3 #manda #manadatrends #businessadvisory

Today, we are honored to share that we are the Excellence in Client Service - Latin America Region award winners at the Investment International Awards 2024! #InvestorsTrust #InvestmentInternationalAwards #Finances #Investing #Savings #InvestmentInternational #ClientService #LATAM

Partner Steve Gallaugher and Special Counsel Simon Gray provided the New Zealand chapter to Baker McKenzie’s third edition of the Guide to Private Credit in Asia Pacific which focuses on key issues that a private credit provider should consider across 14 Asia Pacific jurisdictions. The guide provides both a high-level overview and a more detailed jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction analysis. The guide observes that private credit is playing an increasingly important role on a wide range of financings including distressed and special situations credit, mezzanine facilities, infrastructure debt as well as senior financings to support leveraged acquisitions. Higher funding costs and increased regulatory scrutiny on banks have created a “financing gap” that is being filled by private credit providers who can offer flexibility and speed of execution. In recent years, we have seen a large number of sizeable fundraisings by private equity funds, asset managers and credit funds focused on private credit investments in New Zealand and we expect this trend to continue. Private credit as an asset class has also been attractive to institutional investors in search of returns, risk diversification and more opportunities. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g86wDetn #privatecredit #infrastructuredebt #financing #helpingshapenewzealandsfuture

Looking forward to speaking at this event and sharing experience of investor requirements in the context of private credit fund structuring. Feel free to reach out if you are attending and would like to connect. #LPGPConnect #KPMGtax #alternatives #privatecredit

We are thrilled to welcome Vinod Chandiramani to Solomon Partners. With nearly 20 years of experience in banking and principal investment activity, Vinod brings to the firm capital structure and financing expertise to enhance our capital advisory practice and complement our industry groups. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dCa4itGW #finance #investmentbanking #newhire #peoplemoves #capitaladvisory #debtadvisory #capitalstructure #financingadvisory