Sri Lanka, March 22 -- According to MTI's Corporate Finance & Investment Banking practice, over the next 2 years Sri Lanka is likely to witness a strong pipeline of mid-cap M&A deals.

Commenting on what is driving this, MTI's CEO Hilmy Cader said "There are a multitude of inter-related reasons. Mid-size companies, after a long period of high double digit organic growth, are experiencing flat organic growth".

The only way for these companies to achieve quantum growth and economies of scales (demanded by cost rising costs) is to acquire or merge. But a straight forward consolidation exercise will not help; the integration process needs to put through a radical rationalization process - to arrive at the optimal business model and the inten...