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 that St. Louis M&A has fully recovered from its bout with Covid,” Hull said. “Given Biden’s proposed increase on capital gains, transaction activity may further accelerate in the third and fourth quarters as sellers seek to complete transactions in advance of the anticipated tax hike.”

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