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PitchBook’s Q3 Global M&A Report
Companies and investors certainly shopped till they dropped, and they might not be getting up any time soon. Global merger and acquisition activity that had ratcheted up to record-high deal counts and values at the end of 2021, then dropped in the new year, fell further in Q3, clocking in 29.8% down from the Q4 2021 peak. Climbing inflation, rising interest rates, tumbling tech and healthcare stocks, and a weaker Euro all worked to drag down M&A deals, according to PitchBook’s Q3 2022 Global M&A Report.