Despite the ongoing effects of the recent global financial crisis, most corporate leaders are optimistic enough about their business’ growth, according to a recent report, “Evolution: Profiting From Uncertainty” [PDF], by Hogan Lovells. Although the marketplace has seen low levels of mergers and acquisitions activity in the last few years, 59 percent of senior leaders predicted entering new geographic markets in the next two years, and 56 percent anticipated domestic acquisitions.
The findings are based on interviews with 160 board members and M&A heads at major companies from four regions—40 each from the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and Asia. Consensus Research Group Inc. [link: http://consensusresearch.com/] conducted the survey on behalf of the firm and the Financial Times.
