July 22 - Baltimore Business Journal - Middle market mergers and acquisitions professionals are frustrated with the current M&A environment. But they believe the volume of deals has bottomed out and are optimistic about the second half of 2008, according to a report released Tuesday.
In its twice-yearly survey, the Association for Corporate Growth and Thomson Reuters reported that only 43 percent of middle market M&A dealmakers believe the current M&A environment is good. That's down significantly from a year ago, when the figure was 93 percent.
Nearly half of the more than 500 investment bankers, private equity professionals, corporate development executives, lawyers, accountants and business consultants polled say the greatest obstacle to M&A activity is the weak economy, the report said. Read More.
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