If you have been following our recent blogs on the M&A market, then the recent flurry of deal activity in global M&A will be of little surprise. The writing was on the (virtual) wall: quarterly Deal Flow Indicator results for Q2 and Q3 (read the results here) showed the beginning of an improvement in M&A deal volumes as early as July. Indeed, these optimistic indicators were echoed by the panelists in our recent UK Corporate Development webinar (watch the replay here).