Is current deal activity worse than pre-Covid market or about the same?

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Based on my own experience, way worse. The only slow period for me during COVID was that very first month or two (maybe March-May) but it quickly picked back up and never looked back. Nowadays I’m scraping and struggling to find deal work anywhere I can

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Do you think this puts M&A consulting at risk or benefits them due to more efficient engagements?

PE is starting to look at more deals. Seeing more CDD work coming in.

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About the same but we are still way over staffed, and we fired our differentiators

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That’s my worry, staff levels are still to high.

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In M&A where I work it's awful. Half our core clients have been not buying. Most of our new work has been divesture for spinoffs. I've started being pulled into PMO work.

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Seeing an uptick in PE deals compared to Q1

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Glad to hear it!

Pipeline grows to new heights and everyone lines up staff on late stage pipeline projects… but limited actual conversion. Some weeks will be really strong. Next week will have a few small orders. Strange. Corporate financiers trying to convince us that market returning but not sure if just pushing a narrative they want to believe. Interest rates still high. But then owners will have to exit at some point and interest rates aren’t coming down any time soon (quickly)

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Absolute number of deals? Pretty similar.

But worse.

Way more crappy deals that are a mixture of bad data and super long term sell side with no horizon, to be shared amongst more number of staffs.

Those sell sides that drag out suck…..

Fewer buyers are present, while the number of sellers stays steady. Initially, sellers had lofty expectations, but they now appear to be adjusting to the current market conditions.

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