Executive Summary/Highlights Global M&A volume for 2025 was US$4.6 trillion, 45% higher than 2024 (US$3.2 trillion). Fourth quarter 2025 was the busiest since Q4 2021 with $1.7 trillion in deals announced, including Netflix’s US$99 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (also the largest deal of 2025), Kimberly-Clark’s US$51 billion acquisition of Kenvue Inc. and the … Continued
Executive Summary/Highlights Although global deal-making increased in Q3 2024 compared to Q2 2024, M&A volume for 2024 is on pace to be in line with 2023, the lowest year for M&A since 2009. Nevertheless, several mega deals were announced in Q3 2024, including Mars’ US$35 billion acquisition of Kellanova, Skydance Productions’ US$21 billion merger with … Continued
Executive Summary/Highlights Global dealmaking slowed significantly in Q3 2022, reflecting current macro-economic and geopolitical uncertainties and challenges. Nevertheless, many deals got done and many of the traditional drivers of M&A point to meaningful deal flow in Q4 and beyond. Global M&A volume was US$692 billion in Q3 2022, a 37% decrease from Q2 2022 and … Continued
Executive Summary/Highlights Global M&A activity in Q2 2020 dropped to its lowest quarterly levels in more than a decade, as corporate dealmakers paused to weigh the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the responses of governments, businesses and consumers across the world, and many companies devoted all available resources to existence-preserving activities and not growth … Continued
*This article was originally distributed on January 23, 2020 Dear Clients and Friends, 新年快乐! We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous year ahead! We ring in 2020 on a more positive note than where we started 2019. In the past year, a slowdown in manufacturing has weighed on economic growth both globally and in … Continued
The attached slides summarize trends in cross-border M&A and strategic investment activity throughout the first quarter of 2011. Highlights: Global M&A volume for Q1 2011 was US$671.8 billion, up 29.5% as compared to Q1 2010. Cross-border transactions have rebounded substantially from 2009: 38% of Q1 2011 global M&A was cross-border — up slightly from … Continued
