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If you’re working in a modest demand progress atmosphere general—in the meantime, the price of operating these very refined companies is rising—we’ll see continued consolidation occurring.
If you’re in an trade that grows demand on common lower than 1% from one yr to the following, the best way to outperform your friends is to purchase that progress [through mergers or lateral hiring]. The way in which to outperform your friends is to take market share from others.
— Gretta Rusanow, managing director and head of advisory providers at Citi’s Legislation Agency Group, in feedback given to Bloomberg Law, regarding the probability that legislation agency mergers will proceed apace in 2026 after a yr of consequential mixtures in 2025.
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