INTRODUCTION
TO THE REPORT
Financial Times made the following commentary on the 2023 worldwide M&A climate: Europe showed the sharpest drop (in volume of deals), down 28% annually, while the Asia-Pacific region was 25% lower and the US 6%.
Reuters complemented: Total M&A volumes fell 18% to about $3tn, according to the most recent data from Dialogic, the lowest since 2013 when deal volumes were at $2.8tn. M&A volumes in the USA - the world's largest investment banking market - declined 8% to $1.42tn. Volumes in Europe and Asia Pacific declined more sharply, by 32% and 20% respectively.
In a nutshell, both sources tag 2023 as the weakest year in the last decade, while the European M&A market was hit the most and experienced a y-o-y decline of ca. 30%.
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