Former senior executive Paul Liska has played leading and transformative roles in multibillion-dollar companies in various industries. In these companies, Paul Liska has been involved in numerous mergers and acquisitions, ranging in values from hundreds of millions to transaction values in the billions.
According to Morgan Stanley, 2018 will be another banner year for mergers and acquisitions. In 2017, M&A transactions totaled $3.2 trillion, which was 15 percent higher than the annual average of $2.7 trillion for the past 10 years and within striking distance of the 2015 record of $3.8 trillion.
This surge in M&A is occurring despite rising markets and increasing uncertainty in policymaking. Driving this year’s M&A activities will be continuous technology disruptions, increasing competitive pressures, and groundbreaking mergers from previous years. Among the trends contributing to increased M&A activities are technology convergences, non-technology firms buying technology firms, and technology firms buying non-technology firms, for example, the Amazon purchase of Whole Foods in 2017.
