CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 11 Firms, 136 Lawyers, $5.3B

Last week Dykema dropped the 20th anniversary edition of its annual M&A Outlook Survey. Each year the firm surveys C-Suite executives, bankers, PE advisors and others who are most focused on mergers and acquisitions.

This year during July and August they heard back from 235 respondents from a wide variety of business sectors representing a wide range of annual revenues (from less than $10 million to more than $1 billion). It’s a relatively small but interesting sample that seems to hold an optimistic view, a perspective hard to imagine during these last weeks of a volatile presidential campaign.