Dealmaking during the typically slow summer months has crossed the $1 trillion mark after a burst of mergers and acquisitions in August.
Companies have announced $1.05 trillion of transactions since the beginning of June, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s up 30% from a year earlier and the highest tally for this spell since the record-breaking summer of 2021, when the pandemic sparked a deals boom, the data show.
The period has included the biggest deal announced so far in 2025: