At a retail roundtable breakfast before the BFD Summit, Guggenheim Securities' Adam Rifkin kicked off a conversation on M&A by describing the projections for next year as half doom and half gloom.
Why it matters: M&A, which dropped 55% in value over three quarters globally in 2022, per Refinitiv data, was top of mind for the investment bankers, VCs, lawyers, executives and founders attendees.
