Revived dealmakers confront resurgent challenges
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:39.3 | After years of drought, deal makers can finally point to what looks like a real revival, |
| 0:43.3 | if only for the biggest and the brashest of corporate acquires. |
| 0:47.3 | As the first quarter of 2026 comes to a close, Global M&A volume year-to-date has risen 37% |
| 0:53.3 | to over $1 trillion, according to ELSEG data. |
| 0:57.5 | But that's driven by big boosts in both mega deals and the value of border hopping international |
| 1:03.0 | transactions. |
| 1:04.5 | A couple of potential transatlantic deals in high fashion, hard spirits, and, as we found out |
| 1:09.8 | this morning on Tuesday, in food, |
| 1:12.4 | might further cement the trend. What it all means and whether this uptick can survive |
| 1:16.8 | oncoming volatility from the golf crisis and more is the subject of this week's viewsroom. |
| 1:22.7 | It's Jonathan, and this is the viewsroom your weekly dive into the biggest topics in business |
| 1:27.0 | and economics. My regular co-host, Amy Donnellan, is out this week, so in her stead, I'm joined by Jeff Goldfarb, our global corporate finance editor. And Jeff, it's a handy week for you to be on because you have, A, just returned from a visit to the biggest event on most dealmaker's social calendar, and then B, you have been covering one of these cross-border |
| 1:45.8 | deals, right? Yeah. It's, you know, I went to the Tulane Corporate Law Institute down in New |
| 1:52.7 | Orleans. Every year, the deal-making industry gets together and has a bit of a chinwag and |
| 1:58.7 | came back to a whole host of deals really. I think the |
| 2:03.0 | one you're referring to is the big liquor deal. But I mean, you know, just as I mean, if we can |
| 2:09.5 | just start with where the mood was in New Orleans, you know, every year an investment banker comes in and gives sort of a big spiel about where |
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