Extraordinary times create extraordinary data. The once-in-a-century pandemic caused by the COVID-19 novel coronavirus is creating market distortions across the board. Some, like depressed dealmaking in February, are intuitive; others, like a surge in announced transaction in March, are more surprising.
Thanks to our industry sources, we have managed to go behind the numbers to make sense of them.
Our dataset is still relatively new, which unfortunately limits the analysis we can perform. But in the spirit of the times, we do the best with what we have.