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Mergers and Acquisitions Partners Alan Klein and Atif Azher were featured in a Law360 Q&A titled, “M&A Is Back With A Vengeance, But The Market Has Evolved.” The article highlighted the rise in mergers and acquisitions activity following the slowdown in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and how the market has evolved, including the increase in SPACs as well as minority investments by private equity firms. When discussing the current state of the market, Alan said, “what you've seen, certainly since December, is private equity folks still cranking away, and, in some cases, increasing the size of some of the deals they're willing to do. You see [special-purpose acquisition company] mergers added to that mix…Strategics have been mulling what to do for some time now, and recently there's a backlog of activity that has sort of burst through, which can now be added to the M&A mix.” Meanwhile, Atif noted, “my sense is that, not only is deal activity high when it comes to executed deals, but the actual number of deals being pursued is at an all-time high.”

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