Financing M&A

BMO Capital Markets recently released its third annual report on packaging M&A activity, titled “Mergers and Acquisitions in the Packaging Industry: 2008 Annual Deal Review.” In this report, Lawson states, “After a record year in 2007, the M&A environment was affected by challenging market conditions in 2008. The credit crisis and a difficult economic environment combined with unprecedented spikes in resin, oil, and paperboard prices and resulted in a significant slowdown in packaging M&A activity.”