Strategic Alternatives

Exploring the factors impacting private equity M&A environment and expectations for 2024. Insights on global M&A trends, challenges in US M&A market, take-private volume increases. Impact of limited sponsor bid presence, exit strategies, interest rate impacts on leverage buyouts. Discussing market recovery, asset valuation, and strategic timing for M&A activities.

Exploring the return of traditional financing in private equity M&A, potential sectors leading deal activity, exit strategies maximizing sale proceeds, the role of private credit in financing, sector opportunities in the private equity market, and anticipation of increased transaction volume and market optimism for 2024.

Exploring the rebound of equity markets in 2024, with a focus on market trends, optimistic outlook for global IPOs, convertible market analysis, Australia's sector trends, and European business refocusing.

Discussion on M&A trends in 2024, including interest rate environment, revised expectations, and early buyers. Exploring shift in sellers' expectations, consolidation in the tech industry, IPO market state, antitrust challenges, and consolidation in the Canadian energy sector.

As the U.S. economy shows positive signs for growth, inflation, and interest rates in 2024, RBC Capital Markets’ RBC Capital Markets’ Michael Reid, Blake Gwinn, Vito Sperduto and Larry Grafstein analyze the challenges posed by consumer spending, political gridlock, and quantitative tightening.

Growth is poor, labor is a concern, but inflation seems to have been punctured. Nathan Janzen, Assistant Chief Economist, Canada, examines what the economic signs herald for Canada’s future in 2024. 

The podcast discusses Australia's economic challenges such as softening growth, persistent inflation, and a weaker labor market. It also examines key factors to monitor and their implications for the RBA, bond market, and investors. The analysis includes topics like the labor market, fixed income markets, and navigating Australia's economic outlook.

There are widespread expectations that UK and EU inflation will hit target levels in 2024 – yet many obstacles remain. Peter Schaffrik, Chief European Macro Strategist and Cathal Kennedy, UK Senior Economist analyze the inflationary outlook, prospects for European growth, and how the effects of interest rate rises are still playing out across the continent

Going into the next election, US regulators are more likely to double down than back off their focus on big M&A deals and they’re looking most closely at consumer-facing businesses. Vito Sperduto, Head of Global M&A, sat down with Andrew Lipman, Partner at Morgan Lewis at RBC’s Global Technology, Internet, Media and Telecommunications (TIMT) Conference to discuss how antitrust will continue to affect US regulation in our current environment.

The equity capital market is technically open. Some big IPOs have been delivered. Yet many investors and issuers still prefer to wait rather than act. What’s holding them back, and what are the prospects for the market getting back into full swing in 2024?