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Our biggest M&A boom: $83b and counting
Australia is on track for the biggest year of mergers and acquisitions, as cheap capital collides with post-COVID-19 strategy shifts.
A perfect storm for deal making has Australia on track for a record year of merger and acquisition activity.
Dealogic analysis produced for The Australian Financial Review shows there have been $US64.3 billion ($82.8 billion) of deals announced so far this year, well above the average over the past five years (excluding calendar 2020 when COVID-19 stopped M&A in its tracks in the first half) of $US20 billion.
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