European M&A rockets – but European firms miss out on the big mandates
The annual M&A league tables are coming out and it’s good news. Globally, M&A activity was back to pre-crisis levels in 2014. In Europe the combined value of announced deals broke through the $1tr barrier to hit $1.3tr, up 35.5 per cent from 2013. But the ever-increasingly cross-border nature of the market is heavily underlined […]