Investment Bank Insights: Private Equity’s Role in M&A, Pt. 2

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part MDM Premium series. See Part 1 here.

It’s shaping up to be another very active year in distributor mergers and acquisitions. Through October,

is far outpacing that of 2023, which far outpaced 2022. The robust volume of dealmaking activity has been amid anxiety across the entire industry that stems from high interest rates, uncertainty that prefaced the U.S. general election, labor challenges and an overall sluggish industrial demand cycle that has persisted far longer into the year than…