Category: Advice & Insight
John Hull Discusses Rebound in 2021 M&A Activity with the St. Louis Business Journal

The Fortune Group’s John Hull was recently featured in a St. Louis Business Journal article to discuss the strong rebound in the region’s M&A market during 2021, reaching the highest level of deal activity since the Great Recession of 2007-2009. “The deal market has been incredibly resilient. Once the lockdown ended, people got their arms […]
Read MoreDealmakers Video: Transaction Preparedness – Getting Your Company Ready to Sell to PE

The Fortune Group’s John Hull was recently featured on a virtual panel for the Smart Business Dealmakers Conference to discuss transaction preparedness and address steps that business owners can take to get their companies ready to sell to private equity.
Read MoreThe Fortune Group’s John Hull Featured in the St. Louis Business Journal

Managing Director John Hull was recently featured in the St. Louis Business Journal’s ‘dealmakers report’ discussing the region’s bounce back in M&A activity to pre-pandemic levels and his outlook for the remainder of 2021. “A comparison of activity levels [in the first quarter of 2021] to those immediately before the onset of the pandemic suggests […]
Read MoreJohn Hull Discusses COVID-19 Impact on M&A Activity with the St. Louis Business Journal

The Fortune Group’s John Hull was recently featured in a St. Louis Business Journal article to discuss the region’s slowdown in M&A activity during 2020 amid the pandemic and his expectation as to when the market will rebound. “We see the buyers that were active before the outbreak of the pandemic are back in the […]
Read MoreCOVID-19 Impact on the M&A Market Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the global economy with most experts forecasting a sharp decline in the global GDP for 2020, with the possibility the residual impact continues into 2021. M&A activity had started to soften prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, and it is now expected that M&A activity will be […]
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