Just under 4,900 mergers and acquisitions were announced in the first two months of the year, according to Refinitiv data, of which 29 percent were cross-border deals.
A year earlier in the same period, 6,663 deals had been announced, of which 26 percent had a buyer and seller in different countries. The number of deals with one party based in the United States fell just over 40 percent in 2019, with 1,197 transactions during the two-month period. The average size for a merger or acquisition involving a U.S. buyer or seller was $201 million for the first quarter of 2019 to date. The average deal size for the previous five years was around $130 million.
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