2017 will be an even busier year than 2016 and 2015 for M&A deals in the technology sector, according to more than half of the dealmakers who responded to the semi-annual M&A Leaders Survey conducted by our colleagues at Morrison & Foerster in partnership with 451 Research.

These results are surprising given that there was higher tech M&A spending in 2015 and 2016 than there had been in several years, and there were 12% fewer technology company acquisitions in 2017’s first quarter than there were in Q1 of 2015 or 2016.