Deals

Quarter-Trillion Dollars of Breakups Drive Dealmaking Recovery

  • Boardrooms switch from diversification to simplification
  • Global deal values remain on upward trend after busy summer
WATCH: Evercore’s Ralph Schlosstein says there’s a significant amount of pent-up activity in dealmaking.Source: Bloomberg
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Chief executive officers are no longer trying to be all things to all people.

The return to a more normal post-pandemic environment, in which inflation and supply chains are stabilizing, has prompted executives to re-assess their business mixes to best position companies for future downturns — or before their hands are forced by activist investors.