European M&A Activity Picks up Pace

Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor: Q3 2016
Contributed by Willis Towers Watson, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council

The research – run in partnership with Cass Business School – looks at the share performance of companies post-deal completion. During this quarter, acquirers continued to achieve excellent financial performance, with deal-makers returning a market outperformance of 9.3 percentage points (pp) above the Index, a significant increase compared to 5.8pp in the prior quarter. This performance now completes an unbroken run of 15 consecutive quarters of outperformance.

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