Bain – 2025 M&A outlook

Key Takeaways:

  1. Bain anticipates that interest rates and regulatory hurdles will lessen in 2025, facilitating more deals
  2. Ongoing tech disruption, post-globalization dynamics, and evolving profit pools are prompting companies to explore various M&A strategies
  3. Successful firms will adopt a bolder approach to value creation to navigate new deal economics
  4. Mastery of AI in M&A processes may prove as crucial as deal frequency for predicting success

Source: https://www.bain.com/insights/looking-ahead-m-and-a-report-2025/