Frank Aquila, S&C’s global head of M&A, authored the introduction to the 2020 edition of Chambers Global Practice Guide: Corporate M&A. In his introduction, Frank explores the M&A landscape over the last year, highlighting the most important developments and examining the factors that are shaping trends in 2020.
“The rapid global spread of COVID-19 is set to shape the world’s economic trajectory in 2020,” Frank writes. But he suggests there is still reason for continued optimism: “In today’s environment, with easy availability of capital and extremely low interest rates, there is good reason to be confident that M&A activity will come back strong when the world recovers from COVID-19.” To read more, click here.