ANALYSIS: Q1 M&A Deal Terminations Continue Positive Trend

For those scanning the horizon for clouds in the currently bright mergers and acquisitions market, you won’t find any by looking at deal terminations data: they continue to show positive signs. The number of global M&A deals that were terminated during the first quarter (that is, after the parties entered into a definitive agreement) is around the same level as the number of terminations that occurred in the first quarters of 2020 and 2019. Going back further, the first quarter’s total is noticeably lower than terminations in the first quarters of years 2015 through 2018. And the number of ...