News and Insights

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Advanced Mobility

Advanced mobility legal risks beyond product liability have undergone notable shifts from last year’s survey. Concerns over connected vehicle data privacy (44%) declined 16 percentage points from 60%…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Artificial Intelligence

AI concerns have evolved from abstract to operational. Our survey reveals a landscape in which companies are shifting from debating responsibility to negotiating frameworks that address responsibility…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Cybersecurity and Data Privacy

Recent sector data show that ransomware accounts for 40-45% of publicly reported automotive cyber incidents, more than double the share a year ago. Attacks have evolved beyond IT networks to target…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Government Policy

Tariff policy may loom large throughout our report, but heightened concern over USMCA renegotiations, CAFE standards, and the elimination of the EV tax credit suggests an industry facing…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Mergers and Acquisitions

Respondents to our survey identified the need to increase supply chain resilience (55%) and tariff-driven supply chain restructuring (53%) as the two biggest expected drivers of automotive M&A…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement

Regulatory compliance priorities across the automotive industry have evolved from broad agency authority concerns to specific enforcement mechanisms. Concern over NHTSA’s scrutiny of recall remedies…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Risk and Litigation

Litigation priorities beyond supply chain disputes highlight potential growing exposure from alleged product failure lawsuits and regulatory enforcement. Survey respondents continue to rank autonomous…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Intellectual Property

Intellectual property concerns have undergone significant rebalancing from last year’s survey. The most striking shift is the collapse of concern regarding AI-related ownership disputes from 69% last…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Labor and Employment

Labor and employment challenges that don’t involve immigration include two significant concerns. Non-compete and trade secret enforcement (45%) has surged to become the second-highest priority, up 23…

4.13.26

2026 Automotive Trends Report Insights: Supply Chain

Concern over geopolitical tensions (52%) has surged 23 percentage points from 29% last year, becoming the second most pressing issue among respondents. When combined with semiconductor and critical…

12.18.25

What happened with IP in 2025?

As we close out 2025, the intellectual property landscape continues to evolve at an accelerated pace—driven by advances in artificial intelligence, shifting USPTO leadership and policy, increased…

10.30.25

2025 Trends Report: Annual Mergers & Acquisitions Outlook Survey

For 21 years, Dykema’s Annual M&A Outlook Survey has tracked the pulse of dealmaking in the U.S., consistently affirming a central truth: the M&A market reflects the health of the broader economy.…

10.30.25

M&A Sector Spotlight: Automotive

The Automotive, Transportation & Mobility sector is poised for M&A growth in the next twelve months, with nearly (62%) of respondents expecting increased deal activity. This optimism is largely driven…

10.30.25

M&A Sector Spotlight: Cannabis

M&A activity in the cannabis sector continues to lag behind the exuberant dealmaking of the early 2020s, but selective opportunities still exist. Instead of broad-based expansion or aggressive capital…

10.30.25

M&A Sector Spotlight: Dental Service Organizations

2025 will be remembered throughout the DSO industry as The Year of the Muted Recovery. At the beginning of the year, optimism was high that the M&A drought and challenging conditions that began in mid…

10.30.25

M&A Sector Spotlight: Energy and Natural Resources

M&A activity in the energy sector in 2025 reflects a market in transition—where traditional oil and gas players, renewable developers, and utilities are each recalibrating their portfolios to balance…

10.30.25

M&A Sector Spotlight: Financial Services

The financial services industry entered 2025 with M&A momentum at its strongest pace since the post-pandemic surge of 2021. Global deal values are climbing even as deal volumes remain tempered,…

10.30.25

M&A Sector Spotlight: Healthcare

The healthcare M&A market is entering 2026 with a strong sense of strategic momentum, particularly among private equity investors and tech-forward operators. 

10.30.25

M&A Sector Spotlight: Industrial & Manufacturing

The Industrial & Manufacturing sector ranks among the top areas for anticipated M&A activity in 2026. However, dealmaking in this space is not without its challenges. Tariffs and supply chain…

10.30.25

M&A Sector Spotlight: Veterinary Service Organizations

M&A activity in the veterinary service organization sector remains active, though the market is more measured than the frenzied pace of recent years.