Long-Term Strategic Thinking in M&A

• Corporate boards prioritize long-term strategies when making M&A decisions, thinking in decades rather than years.
• They consider various factors like policy changes, economic cycles, and geopolitical issues but focus on the long-term positioning of their business.
• This long-term perspective makes M&A activity resilient to short-term fluctuations in the market or political landscape.
• Companies make M&A decisions based on where they want to be in 50 or 100 years, considering their business's generational and multi-decade nature.
• This long-term view drives M&A activity regardless of temporary headwinds.