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Mergers & Acquisitions Market Outlook 2024

Your latest deals market update

What does 2024 hold for M&A?

We provide regular Deloitte mergers and acquisitions updates on the UK M&A market, covering industry M&A outlooks, deals trends and hot topic insights. Through videos and articles, we look at how themes, such as interest rates, consolidation, and the Energy Transition, are impacting M&A activity.

In our latest update, we look at global M&A trends by comparing 2023 deal data to 2024. While 2024 has so far seen subdued global deal volumes, average deal values have increased due to the return of mega deals, especially in the corporate sector. With the pricing gap now decreasing, we expect an increase in M&A activity in 2024. We examine what we can expect across industries, the role of Private Equity in driving deals and the impact of themes such as cross-border M&A.

Watch our Summer 2024 macro perspective video

Gurm Dhillon, UK M&A Leader, looks at the latest M&A deal activity and delves into what we can expect for the remainder of 2024. He examines key trends across industries from UK fibre players consolidating, to continuing portfolio rationalisation in the Consumer industry. Gurm also looks at how Private Equity will focus on portfolio value creation through transformation, as well as portfolio mergers and acquisitions to achieve their exit returns.

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Private equity outlook video coming soon

Read our previous insights | M&A market outlook – Q2 2023

Financial Services (FS): A Q2 M&A Outlook

There are multiple M&A activity drivers at play in the FS industry in Q2 2023, despite a challenging macroeconomic environment.
Perspective
5 minute read

Life Sciences & Healthcare (LS&HC): A Q2 M&A Outlook

LS&HC businesses have felt the macroeconomic pressures. However, there are multiple M&A activity drivers that will impact M&A deals in Q2 2023.
Perspective
5 minute read

Media and Telecoms: A Q2 M&A outlook

The global economic and geopolitical uncertainty of the last 12 months has provided some challenges for media and telecoms M&A activity.
Perspective
5 minute read

Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG): A Q2 M&A outlook

Consumer confidence in the UK is down year on year; the macroeconomic landscape remains uncertain. As UK consumers continue to tighten their belts, manufacturers must rethink how they can achieve growth. Find out how in our M&A outlook for the Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) industry in Q2.
Perspective
5 minute read

Energy, Resources & Industrials and the Energy Transition: A Q2 M&A Outlook

The Energy Transition is providing a strong investment opportunity in the Energy, Resources  Industrials sectors, influencing businesses 2023 M&A strategies.
Perspective
5 minute read

Read our previous insights | M&A market outlook – Q1 2023

Deloitte’s outlook for sports investment in 2023

A new influx of capital will be invested in sports in 2023 as a new generation of investor is attracted to the prestige and potential returns that the industry offers. As we enter the next wave of mass investment, Deloitte expects to see women’s sports assets and premium sports properties, such as top-tier teams and leagues, of high interest.
Perspective
3 minute read

TMT M&A Market Outlook Q1 2023

As we head towards 2023, challenging macro factors are at work in M&A markets. The level of debt available is low, with the rapid growth of interest rates coupled with some indigestion from several megadeals in 2022 leaving lenders cautious
Perspective
5 minute read

FS M&A Market Outlook - Q1 2023

From economic pressures to fluctuating interest rates, discover the 4 key themes we expect to see driving M&A activity through 2023 in Financial Services (FS).
Perspective
5 minute read

Energy & Resources M&A Market Outlook - Q1 2023

Discover how fluctuating energy security and prices, climate change and the Energy Transition will influence 2023 Energy & Resources M&A deal activity.
Perspective
5 minute read

Key contacts

Charindra Pathiwille

Partner
+44 (0)20 7007 8456

Gurm Dhillon

Partner
+44 (0)20 7007 8387