Germany Fires Up M&A Engine for Lightning $26 Billion Start

Germany’s dealmakers are having one of their best ever starts to a year.

The value of transactions involving German companies has more than doubled to roughly $26 billion since the start of 2026, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s broadly on par with the same period in previous banner years in 2007 and 2021 and compares with a much more modest increase across Europe as a whole, the data show.