Sector Spotlights

Sector Spotlights

Technology

Artificial Intelligence

• M&A in the AI Era: What Buyers Can Do to Confirm and Protect Value
• Don’t Believe the Hype: Government Regulation of AI Continues to Advance

Data Centers/Digital Infrastructure and Energy

• Structured Finance Is Playing a Key Role as the Capital Demands of Data Center and Power Build-Outs Balloon

Defense

• To Build European Defense Tech Champions, Political Challenges Must Be Overcome

Digital Assets and Fintech

• With Supportive New Regulations, Digital Assets Are Likely to Proliferate in 2026
• Major Jurisdictions Broadly Align on the Key Principles of Stablecoin Regulations but Not Always on the Details
• Digital Asset Treasury Companies Are Using Common Forms of Capital Raising — With a Few Twists
• Tokenization Is Coming to a Fund Near You: Designing the Structures to Make Investment Tokens Work

Financial Institutions

• The Long-Anticipated Wave of Bank Consolidation Starts to Break

Food and Beverage

• ‘Premiumization’ and Slow Organic Growth Are Likely to Feed Food and Beverage M&A

Insurance and Private Equity

• As Insurance, Private Capital and Asset Management Converge, Investors Jump Into Sidecars

Life Sciences

• New FDA Approach to Drug Prices Adds Uncertainty to Drug Approval Process