By Lou Sokolovskiy

How Trump’s tariffs are reshaping America’s lower middle market M&A landscape

Ever since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has been busy introducing new rounds of sweeping tariffs, reigniting trade tensions that had cooled during the intervening years. 

Framed as a patriotic push to revive domestic industry and slash trade deficits, the policy has already carried particular weight for a specific—and often overlooked—corner of American capitalism: the lower middle market.