President-elect Trump doesn’t officially take office for another week, but investment bankers say a boom in Trump-related deal-making is already underway—transactional activity that was stymied by the regulation-heavy Biden administration is poised to explode.
This was the conclusion of a panel of investment bankers and private equity executives who discussed the return of corporate deal-making at the Frontiers of Digital Finance Conference in Miami on Tuesday.
“We’ll have more deals coming to market in 2025 than we’ve had in the last two years,” said Jeffrey Levine, Managing Director at investment banking giant Houlihan Lokey, who spoke on the panel. “More capital has been raised in the last three years than in the history of private equity, but it hasn’t been deployed.”
The conference, sponsored by a private lending company called Biz2X, which provides online lending solutions to small businesses, featured some major players in finance and the intersection of finance …