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November’s electoral outcome is far from certain, but a change in the White House – combined with ongoing fallout from the Coronavirus pandemic – may have a profound effect on the M&A landscape.

Congress and the Federal Reserve have already pumped trillions of dollars into the economy to limit the Coronavirus’s economic damage. Additional stimulus is likely. However, once the immediate crisis has passed, elected officials will have to face the music. Their response could significantly alter how private businesses are valued, and how the owners of those companies asses their M&A ...

More than half of all proposed M&A transactions either fail to close or are consummated on terms that are substantially different than the original LOI.