Jim Ryan was quoted in the Financial Times article “How the AI Revolution Has Turbocharged M&A.” The article explores how the AI boom has transformed mergers and acquisitions, driving record dealmaking across the technology, utilities, energy and infrastructure sectors. Companies are now pursuing massive scale in chips, data centers, power generation and talent acquisition to compete in the AI economy, while hardware and memory companies have become highly valuable.
The article also discusses the continued trend of how Big Tech increasingly uses “acquihires” to secure engineers and intellectual property while avoiding antitrust scrutiny.
Jim notes that acquihire structures “can offer valuable opportunities for founders and employees”. But, given the complexity of such arrangements, “they can also raise questions for investors”.
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