date:May 29, 2019
Total disclosed deal value for Q1 2019 resides at 1,672 million (across 14 deals), which was strongly boosted by the 975 million takeover of Dairy Crest by Saputo of Canada.
Despite the downward trend in this quarters deal volume compared to the preceding quarter, these figures appear to be consistent with the trend for MA deal volume to be subdued in the first quarter of the year.
When we released the findings of our sector deal analysis at the end of 2018 our view was that overall appetite