Two-thirds of the corporate executives who participated in Dykema Gossett‘s 14th annual M&A Outlook Survey expect the M&A market to strengthen over the next 12 months—a big improvement over the last three years when fewer than 40 percent expected an improvement in the market.

In addition, “negative sentiment” about the market dropped to 15 percent this year, after hovering around 20 percent for the last three years.