Global M&A activity rose to $2.2 trillion in 2011, making it the strongest year since 2008. The picture was even rosier in the U.S., which had its strongest year since 2007.
April 01, 2013 at 12:00 AM
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Take the ongoing debt crisis in Europe, add slowing growth in China, toss in the uncertainty of a presidential election in the United States, and finish it off with Congress tiptoeing to the edge of the fiscal cliff. Doesn’t sound like much of recipe for a solid year in dealmaking, does it? Given all the things stacked against the global economy in 2012, it might come as a surprise that the value of corporate transactions was up in both mergers and acquisitions and capital markets work. According to Thomson Reuters, the value of worldwide mergers and acquisitions in 2012 crept up 2 percent over the prior year, to $2.6 trillion; equity capital markets activity was up 1.5 percent, to $630.4 billion; and overall global debt capital markets dealmaking was up 10 percent, to $5.6 trillion, the highest mark since 2009. What did this rise in work, coming after a long slumber, mean for transactional lawyers? This year’s edition of our Corporate Scorecard has the answers.
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