Doing deals during the pandemic Top 1000: Despite the challenges, mergers and acquisitions continued at pace over the past year about 2 hours ago
Deals may have come to a sudden halt when the Covid crisis hit last March but they soon got back on track again a short time later, with 2020 ending up a bumper year for transactions in the Republic. Overall, there were 490 deals during the year, according to figures from Experian. This marks an almost 8 per cent rise on the number of transactions carried out in 2019 and was the highest annual figure recorded during the decade. The value of deals was down by almost a third versus 2019 but the total value of Irish M&A still totalled €55 billion, an impressive return all things considered.