Donald Trump’s second term as president is highly anticipated by much of the finance and M&A community, with many hopeful that his disposition to business will spur a rise in dealmaking.
But the one thing we know from his last term is that we need to expect the unexpected. His personal views and a desire to advance a political agenda played a far stronger role in the M&A landscape than previous administrations. He used his merger review powers to go after allegedly left-leaning CNN through the challenge of the TimeWarner-AT&T deal, for instance.
