Deloitte expects M&A market to start growing next year

Hein van Dam, Deloitte’s partner in charge financial advisory Balkan Region, believes the M&A market will start growing next year because the deals consultants are working on now will come to be completed.

“The M&A market is still at a turning point, after having improved in the last quarter, but I expect it to start growing again next year. In Romania, M&A activity has been influenced by foreign direct investments. Global macroeconomic weaknesses have clearly influenced traditional investors in Romania, so that M&A activity has slowed down during al these years,” Hein van Dam told ZF in an interview.
According to a recent ZF survey, the M&A market has shown some signs of a revival in recent months, with ten deals totally worth above 140m euros having been signed, three of which in just one day, the first time since the onset of the crisis when so many deals have been sealed in such a short period of time.
Lately, one of the dynamic fields in terms of M&A activity has been that of private healthcare services. Energy has also been a lively field.