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M&A at a Glance (October 2012)
October 15, 2012 Read the memo
Attached is the October issue of Paul, Weiss's M&A at a Glance publication. Despite indications in the preceding two months that the U.S. M&A market was strengthening (with prior data showing dollar volume increases in the overall, strategic and sponsor-related deal markets and also increases in average deal value (including in the size of the largest five U.S. deals)), this month proved that continued improvement in dealmaking remains elusive. Both global and U.S. deal markets weakened across-the-board in total volume, number of deals and average size of deals (including in the size of the largest five U.S. deals) in September. In particular, we note significant declines in global and U.S. sponsor-related activity. (See Figure 1.)