"There's been a lot of reporting done that the current FTC is, for lack of a better term, more aggressive in finding objections to proposed transactions that historically would not have faced the same degree of scrutiny," Andrew Luh, partner and chair of M&A practice at Silicon Valley law firm Gunderson Dettmer told The Register in an interview.
"There are a lot of high profile examples in the news about deals that are being challenged," Luh added, referring to high-profile deals like Microsoft's acquisition of Activision-Blizzard and other top-tier cases that Khan's FTC has fought.
"We, as a firm, will work on about 150 a year and we're not a huge firm by any means. So the aggregate tech M&A deal stats are still massive, even if you silo off the most scrutinized deals."
S&P Global put out a report on the M&A outlook under the second Trump administration shortly after the election that suggested, contrary to the perception of the Biden administration as a trust-busting, anti-acquisition administration, the total number of tech, media, and telecommunications mergers could stabilize.
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