PPD - M&A volume expected to keep record pace in 2nd half of year

The over 50 megadeals announced so far this year matched the number of megadeals in all of 2020 and that pace is likely to continue, according to M&A experts.Transactions of at least $5B would not only top last year, but likely the last several years, according to PWC analysis. Through May, there were $1.4 trillion of deals announced this year.Some of the biggest deals of the year so far include Thermo Fisher Inc.'s (TMO) planned $17B purchase of PPD (PPD), Canadian National Railway's (CNI) $33B planned Kansas City Southern (KSU) acquisition, Microsoft's (MSFT) almost $20B deal for Nuance (NUAN), Realty Income's (O) planned $16.6B acquisition of VerReit (VER), Thoma Bravo's $12B acquisition of ProofPoint, Icon's $12B purchase of PRAH Health Sciences and UnitedHealth's $13B planned purchase of Change Healthcare (CHNG)."The merger environment is just extremely active right now, much more than we ever thought it would be, certainly in the

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M&A volume expected to keep record pace in 2nd half of year