Opportunities in Distressed M&A

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to give rise to a wave of distressed companies looking for buyers or investors. With depressed valuations and significant pockets of cash available to investors, there are likely to be many M&A opportunities that might be classed as “distressed M&A”.

This publication, Opportunities in Distressed M&A, considers:

• the opportunities for investors with a degree of appetite for risk
• the issues investors in a COVID-19 recovery environment might face
• how the sophisticated buyer might address some of them