{"id":173935,"date":"2023-12-24T22:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T14:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/?p=529931"},"modified":"2023-12-24T22:11:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T14:11:28","slug":"ma-activity-expected-to-pick-up-in-2024-bankers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/12\/24\/ma-activity-expected-to-pick-up-in-2024-bankers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"M&amp;A activity expected to pick up in 2024, bankers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merger &#38; acquisition activity is expected to increase next year as borrowing is expected to be easier and companies are undeterred by antitrust regulators&#8217; attempts to block deals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clients are more actively calling, and people are picking up pencils on processes that are ready to kick off,&#8221; Michele Cousins, head of leveraged capital markets for the Americas at UBS, said at a UBS press briefing earlier this month.&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This data comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/\" title=\"ChinaPulse.com provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring for China News\" >ChinaPulse.com media intelligence and smart news insights monitoring platform<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merger &#038; acquisition activity is expected to increase next year as borrowing is expected to be easier and companies are undeterred by antitrust regulators' attempts to block deals.<br \/>\n\"Clients are more actively calling, and people are pick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,144,213,477,194,1621,78,1284,1542],"tags":[2762,3868,7571,6811],"class_list":["post-173935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antitrust","category-china","category-china-news","category-investment","category-news-chinese-law","category-private-equity","category-software","category-stock-market","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-cybersecurity","tag-oil","tag-semiconductor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173936,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173935\/revisions\/173936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}