Global dealmaking has sunk to its lowest level in three years due to a record value of withdrawn bids, a sharp drop in US activity and a 20-year low for British involvement in takeover deals.
Data from Thomson Reuters show that merger and acquisition activity has slowed markedly in the first three quarters of 2016, with companies agreeing to $2.37tn of deals — a 22 per cent drop compared with the record breaking activity of a year ago.
This slowdown is at its sharpest in the US, where the value of M&A deals has fallen 31 per cent in the first nine months of the year, to $1tn.
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