Matt Tingler, Managing Director of Baird’s Global Consumer & Retail Investment Banking practice, recently sat down with Axios to appraise the current landscape of M&A activity in the retail industry. As he indicates, some trends are more optimistic, while others remain more ambivalent.

Tingler gives his perspective on everything from the private equity market to corporate divestitures in the current economic environment.

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