North America, Corporate Deals Drive Upstream M&A Despite Slow QI

摘要

The upstream mergers and acquisitions market has remained stagnant thus far in 2014, with the quarterly deal count hitting its lowest level since a recession-riddled first quarter of 2009 and total transaction spending reversing a two-quarter pop at the end of 2013, an EI Finance analysis of Derrick PLS M&A data has found. But some comers of the market have begun to show sparks of life, with corporate-level activity returning to previous norms and North America once again the epicenter of global deal flow.