M&A Activity Starting to Rebound

摘要

Despite the fact that packaging merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is down 53 percent in the last 12 month period from peak levels in 2007, the number of transactions announced in the last 12-month period has begun to rebound from the trough in 2009, says BMO Capital Markets in the latest edition of its The Converter. It placed acquirers into one of four categories: privately held strategic, publicly traded strategic, private equity group (PEG), or private equity group-owned strategic.