M&A Conference 2017: The art of cross-border-deal - where is deal activity heading?
The year 2016 was marked by extraordinary political and economy uncertainty and a corresponding effect on cross-border deal activity. According to Thomson Reuters, global M&A activity totaled USD 3.7 trillion dollars in 2016. Record levels of outbound M&A from Chinese buyers into European and US assets accounted for a large chunk of this.