For the second time in three weeks, there was discussion at Law.com about postponing the normally weekly Deal Watch column due to, well, a lack of deals. But it turns out that the lack of activity is a story in and of itself. 

This last week, according to Law.com Radar, saw only two deals over $1 billion, one SPAC registering with the SEC, one IPO (on the Shanghai exchange) and no SPAC mergers⁠—a slow showing even by the reduced standards of 2022.