How to Use dealmaking in a Sentence

dealmaking

noun
  • Although dealmaking has been stuck in a rut for much of this year, two big deals popped up on our radar last week.
    Aaron Weitzman, Axios, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The opaque nature of much of that dealmaking can obscure the risk banks lending to these players face, Weller said.
    NBC News, 29 Mar. 2021
  • That compares with a near 50% slump in global dealmaking, the data show.
    Dinesh Nair, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The contract deadline falls on Sept. 12, and marks one of the key dates in the annals of labor-management dealmaking.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 26 June 2024
  • The result could rewrite the rules in fashion dealmaking.
    Evan Clark, WWD, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Those deals consumed less than a quarter of the funds that Savvy has available for further dealmaking.
    David Bloom, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The bid's timing also looks like a wager on a revival in dealmaking.
    Ben Dummett, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Morgan Stanley said last week that profits fell about 9% from a year ago, due to a sharp decline in Wall Street dealmaking.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The writers and actors strikes may be gumming up any dealmaking but the producers say there is talk of a follow-up.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The dealmaking has been easier because the debate has been mostly out of the headlines.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2024
  • In the decades that followed, Mr. Peltz’s career mirrored the history of modern dealmaking.
    Lauren Hirsch, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Mergers in all industries have slowed since a record 2021 when nearly all sectors posted a surge in dealmaking.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 6 June 2024
  • Nvidia declined to comment when asked about Huang’s criteria for meeting with founders during the dealmaking process.
    Richard Nieva, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Whatever form Sundance dealmaking takes, these are the titles most likely to entice buyers out of their post-strike malaise.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The acquisitions could help the companies add new sales to aging line-ups and suggest this year could be a busy one for industry dealmaking.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 9 Feb. 2023
  • While other schools have not joined HCU, leaders of some have voiced similar grievances and worries and have complained the dealmaking was rushed and not transparent.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 July 2024
  • Since the pandemic, the pace of TIFF dealmaking has been glacial, with buyers not jumping into all-night auctions but preferring to see all the films over the first weekend and then engage to fill out their film slates.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
  • And after three decades as a Black woman climbing the ladder in the former capital of the Confederacy, Lucas felt she had been shut out of the dealmaking process.
    Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The aircraft deal, in the making for more than a year, was finalized in London, just a few miles from Buckingham Palace, a Reuters report said, citing sources familiar with the dealmaking process.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The dealmaking was legally allowed once Hogan declared the pandemic an emergency in March 2020.
    Bryn Stole, baltimoresun.com, 25 June 2021
  • Financial industry bonuses last swelled when the pandemic set off a wave of trading and dealmaking.
    Katherine Doherty, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
  • What about potential dealmaking in the streaming sector?
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
  • Provisions soared, while smaller firms such as Lazard Ltd. face pressure from slower dealmaking.
    Farah Elbahrawy, Fortune, 13 May 2023
  • These in-house attorneys helped guide their companies through two strikes in 2023 and a bumpy economy but that doesn’t mean dealmaking and production were not still rolling ahead at top speed — and these legal minds forged the best path forward.
    Todd Longwell, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
  • For much of the Trump era, legislative dealmaking took place despite him, not because of him, and most of the executive branch essentially ran on autopilot.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
  • But for critics, Mnuchin’s dealmaking also raises concerns about ethics.
    Stan Choe, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The world of corporate dealmaking is abuzz following reports that last year the bosses of ExxonMobil and Chevron discussed combining the two firms, clobbered by covid-19 along with the rest of their industry.
    The Economist, 6 Feb. 2021
  • But the eagerness to pony up for Musk and the lazy quality of this dealmaking reveal something deeper about the brokenness of this investment ecosystem and the ways that it is driven more by vibes and grievances than due diligence.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Public officials in some of the communities that have secured these server farms are fierce defenders of their dealmaking.
    oregonlive, 5 May 2022
  • Finance firms across the board have announced cuts to their investment banking divisions as dealmaking has slowed, according to Andy Challenger, head of sales and media at Challenger.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2022

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