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Cooley’s 2023 Cross-Border M&A Year in Review: Navigating Choppy Waters into a More Buoyant 2024

Cooley M&A

The higher interest rates escalated borrowing expenses, making mega-deals (deals valued at $5 billion or more) significantly more expensive, due to their heavy reliance on debt financing, and impacted valuation multiples with higher discount rates. For example, while the $7.3