St. Paul, Minn. — Merrill Corporation, a leading global provider of technology-enabled services for the legal, financial, real estate and other corporate markets, and The Mergermarket Group, an independent merger and acquisition (M&A) intelligence and research service, today announced the release of the US/European Transatlantic Cross-Border M&A Spotlight. The report provides valuable insights on a range of issues related to cross-border M&A transactions and summarizes the results of a recent survey of more than 100 senior corporate executives and investment bankers who are active in M&A deals.
The report addresses expectations for sector activity, protectionism and the impact of financial buyers within the competitive landscape. Many respondents believe that technology, pharmaceutical/medical and financial services are expected to offer the greatest opportunity in 2008 and the proposed easing of Sarbanes-Oxley regulations will help facilitate additional transatlantic M&A transactions.
“A vast majority of the respondents expect transatlantic M&A activity to remain healthy in 2008 and over 77 percent of those surveyed believe M&A levels will increase or remain the same,” said Paul Hartzell, senior vice president of global sales for Merrill DataSite®. “These results are consistent with the rapid growth of Merrill’s Virtual Data Room solutions for transatlantic deals.”
In addition to releasing the report, Merrill Corporation and The Mergermarket Group will host the Transatlantic M&A Symposium in London on October 11, 2007, to further discuss the implications of the research findings and other related M&A issues. Registration details are available online at: http://www.datasitedeal.com/event/landing.asp?src=2667.
