Category: Mergers & Acquisitions

Traversing Healthcare Services M&A While Navigating a Healthcare Crisis

The healthcare industry has been forced to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic directly, which has caused some drastic changes to how care is delivered as well as the M&A landscape for health services businesses. Vasanta B. Pundarika and Amanda Verner Thompson of Matrix Capital Markets Group examine trends from 2020 and Q1/21 while projecting how the market will evolve over the second half of the year.

Once Again, the Bulls are Running: 2018 Citizens Bank M&A Survey Reflects Strong Sellers’ Market

In 2017, Citizens Bank took an unusual step with its annual M&A Advisory Survey — it polled business decision-makers before and after the election to test the impact. Optimism was high in the post-election survey, and in 2018, it is higher still. Ralph Della Ratta, head of M&A Advisory at Citizens Capital Markets, explains why this is a good time to sell and encourages lenders to push customers towards eager buyers.

Citizens Survey: Urgency Drives 2017 M&A Outlook

Citizens Commercial Banking released its annual Middle Market M&A Outlook for 2017, based on a survey of 600 C-level executives. The forecast? 2017 could be a busy year for M&A transactions as both buyers and sellers feel it’s time to act. Head of Corporate Finance and Capital Markets at Citizens Commercial Banking, Bob Rubino broke down the results in detail for ABF Journal, including what’s fueling the M&A activity and how the national election results can affect the outlook.