Dealmakers are betting that a pick-up in megamergers will gather pace under Donald Trump’s presidency, after a rebound in larger deals helped push the value of takeovers back over the $3tn mark this year.
The value of mergers and acquisitions globally is up 11 per cent so far this year, an improvement from the doldrums of 2022 when dealmaking fell short of the $3tn threshold for the first time in a decade.
The value of so-called megadeals, worth more than $5bn, was up 19 per cent year to date, boosting the figures, even as the total number of deals fell by a fifth to a nine-year low, according to data from the London Stock Exchange Group.