Barry Calogero, a FOCUS Managing Director, brings more than 30 years of executive management and consulting experience, with an emphasis on driving operational excellence and improving the enterprise value of companies around the world.
M&A deal momentum in the Government and Defense sector continued to grow in the first quarter of 2022 after a record-breaking year in deal volume in 2021. Strategic and private equity buyers continue to have a strong appetite for platform and add-on acquisitions.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed deficiencies in America’s defense and intelligence operations that stand to benefit small- and medium-sized contractors in the aerospace and defense industry. We believe the pace of mergers and acquisitions in this space, which reached new heights in 2021, will continue throughout 2022 and beyond given the more dangerous geopolitical environment we now find ourselves in.