With the emerging markets continuing to dominate the expansion strategies of many City and international firms, the short term picture remains mixed as the value of M&A activity in the region bucked a global trend by dropping to $125.7bn during the first quarter of 2014, down by 4.7% from $131.9bn compared with the first quarter of 2013.
The total number of M&A transactions in the emerging markets in Q1 was down to 2,583, a drop of 17.9% from the same period last year, according to the latest M&A legal review from Thomson Reuters.
