Lauren Thomas
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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If my conversations are any signal, I mean, as we sit here right now, it's August and typically this is like
The dog days of summer and everyone's in Europe or on vacation or out in the Hamptons.
And I feel like way more bankers and lawyers I talk to are stuck in New York City and is sitting in boardrooms or on conference calls and hammering out deals because companies of CEOs are at a point where they see a window of opportunity and it's like, let's go out and get this done.
Even if it's August, the expectations are high riding into the rest of the year.
I've had a lot of folks tell me, just buckle up, get ready, because after Labor Day, the expectation is it's going to be pretty busy.
And, of course, these bankers and lawyers get a cut of the fee as well.
So they're motivated to see things get done.
Do you see any potential roadblocks for this M&A bonanza?
So great caveat to all of this big grain of salt is that it is still the Trump administration.
And as we've seen, it can be unpredictable.
And so one day the administration might be feeling good about a deal.
The next day, maybe not.
Take this Verizon buying frontier communications.
We'll
Verizon ultimately had to rewrite and scrap some of its policies around DEI in order to get the deal done.
And then they finally got the approval they needed from the FCC to close that deal.
So I think we've entered this new era of there are different players in Washington.
They're motivated.
Some of it's tit for tat, but it could change on a dime.
That was WSJ Lead Deals Reporter Lauren Thomas.
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