We saw the market shift from very much survival mode to sensible growth mode and called last year’s market performance as “healthy.” Brogan described sensible growth as “growth in an era where people are a lot less confident of what the future is going to look like than they would have been, so they’re orienting growth to be resilient in the face of uncertainty.
Oil industry acquisitions appear ready to increase in 2018 and shift from survival strategies toward growth objectives, according to key business observers at global professional services firm EY.