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The 2025 US insurance M&A outlook explores fundamental trends and topics like deal timing, technology (and Insurtech), tax planning, and strategic structuring, that will impact the anticipated increase in deal environment in our sector this year.

 A divestiture presented an opportunity to reimagine a company’s lead-to-cash and record-to-report capabilities—and serve as a fresh start

 Navigating fast-paced change, elevated risk, and outsized opportunity

 As the banking industry adapts to a low-growth, lower-rate environment, banks can reinforce their foundation for sustainable growth with ingenuity and discipline.

Valuations and M&A activity are increasing in the U.S., especially in life sciences and MedTech, but the full impact of economic changes may not be clear until 2025, highlighting the need for strategic financial planning.

 Turning the corner to capitalize on a generational opportunity

In one of the largest-ever bank acquisitions in North America, strategic planning helped drive a complex integration and seamless welcome for a regional bank’s customers.

With the increasing challenges amid rising interest rates and greater government scrutiny, private equity (PE) firms need to continue to manage expenses to drive returns. By expanding a portfolio company’s footprint in the cloud, PE firms gain the competitive advantage of added security, agility, and scalability.

In 2023, commercial real estate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) hit the pause button. Lending for commercial real estate projects tightened, exacerbating an already dry environment for those seeking financing. Toward the end of 2023, however, the storm clouds began to part.

Between inflation, interest rate hikes, and geopolitical conflict, 2023 saw muted mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in banking and capital markets across the United States. Plan for the year ahead with the latest outlook on M&A activity in the banking and capital markets sector.

Learn how Deloitte professionals turn highly customized mergers and acquisitions in banking and restructuring strategies into high-impact solutions that power growth.

Insurers evolving to address changing operating environment and precipitate even greater societal impact

Banks' strategic choices will be tested as they contend with multiple fundamental challenges to their business models. They must demonstrate conviction and agility to thrive.

Winning in tomorrow’s world with the lessons of today

A large investment management firm had a resource problem. It needed to expand resource capacity, increase efficiencies, achieve greater scale, and reduce risks—all within their valuation function. And to find the right solutions, it needed Deloitte.

For one US agribusiness, the seeds for continued success lay in M&A

When making the operating model adjustments needed to keep a business growing, balance is key

Complex supply chains that have long been financially worthwhile for many organizations are today getting a hard look. Rising global wages, lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and higher sustainability expectations are among the factors pushing leaders to consider supply chain reshoring or nearshoring.

A global consumer packaged goods company was being outpaced by its peers in profitability. But by transforming the operating model and optimizing strategic control for cost improvement, we helped it save over $200 million—and set the stage for a brighter future.

After a global transportation client tripled its workforce, Deloitte helped it navigate the transition of new future employees and the disparate policies and programs that came with them. How? By creating an ecosystem of services that streamlined its new tax, compliance, and rewards issues.

Life sciences M&A was a bright spot across the wider dealmaking world in 2023. Will this positive trend continue over the next 12 months? We think so. We’re making five bold 2024 life sciences M&A predictions, which include another strong year for pharma M&A and a positive turn for the MedTech market. Find out what else we expect this year.

Observations on M&A in the 2023 pharma and biopharma market

What are the tax considerations and impacts that companies should factor when assessing a deal?

Unlock timely M&A trends and insights from Deloitte experts in the latest podcast episode.

Adjacent market M&A deals often show early promise as a foundation for bold change. But what approaches tend to pay off over the long term, and what can leaders learn from them?

During acquisitions and divestitures, realization of revenue synergies may depend on factors such as timing, accuracy, and rationalization of product master data

Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) markets reached a nadir in 2023, with challenging conditions suppressing total deal value below $3 trillion for the first time in a decade. There are, however, a few strong positives.

A strategic merger between two nonprofits acted as an impact multiplier for educational equity

Risk-based M&A IT due diligence is increasingly insufficient for effective dealmaking

This report explores some of the key themes, and provides valuable insights and practical strategies to help company leaders evolve their thinking around portfolio management and divestment.

Company transformation initiatives take many forms and can include a variety of efforts related to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), restructuring, divestitures, and workforce redesigns. While these project categories have differing goals and time spans, they can affect large swaths of a company’s operations and result in organization-wide change.

In a world where technology evolves at the speed of light, many of the new world challenges can be directly addressed with the emergence of disruptive technologies. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of disruptive technologies, paving the way for innovative solutions to address ever-evolving needs across various industries.

Cross-industry collaboration and risk mitigation will be needed to achieve net-zero goals.

How AI in private equity can solve a firm’s contact center challenges

ESG considerations in M&A

5 bold steps to becoming ‘divestiture-ready’

It seems an understatement to characterize the current state of global affairs as “volatile.” If the past few years have shown anything, it’s that boards can be certain of at least one thing: an uncertain governance landscape.

Interim operating models (IOMs) intricately map out how legal entities interact with customers and each other, orchestrating a seamless post-M&A dance between sellers and buyers.

With rapid advancements reshaping technology, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are becoming crucial in defining the semiconductor industry’s future. How are industry leaders navigating these shifts? And what role do strategic M&A and AI play in fostering innovation and attracting highly specialized talent? Tune in to this episode of User Friendly.

Finance leaders should understand the drivers behind consolidation trends in a shifting fiber network marketplace

As private equity reshapes the very fabric of sports ownership, the game plan for owners and investors is clear: Understanding the business world of sports can be a necessity for those seeking to capture value off the field. Deloitte’s Private Equity in Sports Playbook lays out some key considerations for making an informed decision before striking a deal.

A global semiconductor company was acquiring another company; to be successful, they’d need to take two sets of strategies, technologies, and talents and harmonize them to create something new. They chose to work with Deloitte.

Acquisitions provided the fast-track to growth. But what about integration and stability?

The chemical industry should balance short- and long-term goals to weather the uncertainty in the current landscape and position itself for the future.

Resilience through the headwinds

Manufacturers should continue embracing digital transformation to contribute to a competitive and resilient future and to help tackle ongoing manufacturing challenges.

Cross-industry collaboration and risk mitigation will be needed to achieve net-zero goals.

The energy transition has created an array of M&A investment opportunities, which organisations are capitalising on to support their sustainability and climate objectives.

Our annual oil and gas M&A outlook reveals five trends that could reshape the dealmaking landscape and provide inroads to profitable opportunities in the year ahead—and beyond.

As chemical companies come to terms with managing on-going volatility, it is hopeful that 2023 will likely prove to be a stronger year of transactions in the industry.

The evolving role of Generative AI

In this blog post, we explore a few uses cases for GenAI in culture diligence and how it can help leaders and deal teams alike to focus on nuanced decision making and spend less time processing data.

Reimagining clean room analytics as a strategic differentiator

In a world where technology evolves at the speed of light, many of the new world challenges can be directly addressed with the emergence of disruptive technologies. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of disruptive technologies, paving the way for innovative solutions to address ever-evolving needs across various industries.

How AI in private equity can solve a firm’s contact center challenges

4 bold predictions and 4 strategic actions