M&A deals up 130% in 2024

M&A activity has picked up in 2024 with several acquisition deals being announced among total global M&A deals being valued at $425 billion so far this year. Additional Dealogic data has found the volume of M&A activity to have increased by 130% year-over-year this quarter.
Bain & Company Global M&A Practice Vice President Suzanne Kumar joins Yahoo Finance Live in-studio to highlight mergers and acquisition trends across categories — particularly in the energy sector — and what the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy will mean for the M&A market.
"The story of last year was that disconnect on buyer-seller valuation gap as interest rates rose. There was some kind of confusion and resetting of what is the right price expectation," Kumar says. "And so, we have been waiting to see how that logjam, how that backlog will start to get unlocked, and... when we start to see deals like this come to the market, now there's a new mark and... buyers and sellers can get to a closer place."
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