Acquisitions & Divestitures

From their perspective, researchers at Deloitte see the volatility that depressed M&A markets in second-half 2008 and through 2009 spilling far into 2010, possibly washing out the revival of normalcy in upstream deal making anytime soon.

“In more normal times, testing the bottom of the market might have generated a rash of M&A activity by now, but the global economic crisis and the 2008 U.S. national elections threw a curve ball into the mix that we believe may have caused the slump to continue,” says Gary Adams, Deloitte vice president ...