PE pressure could spur more tech M&A

In the wake of easing inflation and AI advances over the past year, some tech companies may be increasingly hungry to enter the M&A arena even as the new U.S. election has thrown a new type of uncertainty into the market, deal experts from accounting and consulting firm KPMG said in a virtual roundtable last week. 

This year has seen strong growth in terms of average deal size, and modest growth in terms of volume, both of which KPMG’s Anuj Bahal, the firm’s US deal advisory and strategy sector leader for tech, media and telecom, expects to continue through 2025.  READ MORE