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Artificial intelligence (AI) has spurred M&A volume in 2024, according to Dykema, noting 55 transactions targeting AI startups during the first quarter compared with 38 during the final quarter of last year. More than 70% of dealmakers expect that mergers and acquisitions in the next 12 months will target companies that sell AI infrastructure or that either offer AI solutions or have successfully deployed the technology, Dykema found in a survey of 235 executives focused on M&A. Company valuations and the line-up of M&A targets have improved compared with last year, according to Dykema, citing its survey. Still, dealmakers said competition among buyers persists as a headwind to transactions. “The institutions and funding and talent and mechanisms are in place for M&A to reach new highs, and the M&A industry is dominated by optimists,” said Frank Ballantine, an M&A lawyer at Dykema. “But when and exactly how new highs will be reached would require an LLM [large language model] that I don’t know of anyone having developed.”
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