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Michael Chiaramonte

Aug 25, 2026

7:26
I'll pass it to Michael to talk about some of the other factors.
7:29
Well, I think part of it was just pent up demand from a multi-year period during the Biden administration that was incredibly antagonistic to big mergers.
7:41
And so I think coming into the change of administration at the beginning of last year, what we saw was the potential for a lot of that pent-up demand to be unleashed in the form of bigger deals being announced.
7:55
Suzy really nailed it, though, when she talked about the deglobalization trend.
8:00
And so much of what we're seeing now is how you've got conflicting national economic priorities working against each other in a way that makes big M&A more complicated.
8:13
There's a simple aspect of this, which is that bigger companies today are much more global in scope in terms of their operations and where they're present than they used to be.
8:24
And so by virtue of that greater geographic exposure, they're going to fall under the jurisdiction of that many more regulators around the world.

13 MINS LATER

21:43
I don't know if it's the U.N. somehow coordinating all global regulatory efforts, but anything that actually kind of keeps you up at night or or could derail this this opportunity?

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