It Wasn't All Bad. Listing the Year's M&A Wins

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Hello, it’s Fareed Sahloul, Dinesh Nair and Vinicy Chan in London, doing our best to recall some of the year’s few M&A bright spots. Elsewhere, cash calls are all the rage in Europe and Powell holds the keys to the US IPO market.

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Try trawling through Bloomberg data for year-end M&A snapshots and you’ll find screens of red. No major region or sector truly escaped the global deals slump brought on by inflation, rates, war...you know the list. And let’s not talk about what that means for bonus season.