1、Global M&A Report 2025How leaders are adapting to meet the momentDealEdge is a registered trademark of Bain&Company,Inc.and CEPRES GmbH.HelixSM is a service mark of Bain&Company,Inc.Copyright 2025 Bain&Company,Inc.All rights reserved.AcknowledgmentsThis report was prepared by the leadership team of

2、Bain&Companys Global M&A and Divestitures practice,with special direction from Les Baird,partner;David Harding,advisory partner;Dale Stafford,partner;Kai Grass,partner;Suzanne Kumar,practice executive vice president;Rebecca Telzak,senior manager;and an editorial team led by David Diamond.The authors

3、 wish to thank the many members of the Bain leadership team who contributed articles to this years report.Additionally,we wish to thank the following colleagues for their help with this report:Bain Partners Harshveer Singh,Peter Horsley,and Colleen von Eckartsberg;Practice Senior Analyst Amol Mathur

4、;Consultants Fiona Bowen and Noah Plaue;Senior Associate Consultants Yuan Cai and Tiffany Chen;Associate Consultants Matthew Griff and Gabriel Moscoso;and the editorial team including Steven Anderson,Brooke Dunn,Shahnaz Islam,Jesse Nunes,Daniel Robinson,Martyna Uziallo,and Kirti Yadav.This work addi

5、tionally benefited from the support of Bain Capability Networks Abhishek Jain,Roopam Kalra,Chhavi Khandelwal,Mohit Gupta,Yashovardhan Dey,Vishaal S,and Bain Capability Network Labs Arko Chatterjee and Suprakash Gosh.1Global M&A Report 2025ContentsLetter from the Leader of Bains M&A Practice .2State

6、of the Market.3Looking Back at M&A in 2024:Dealmakers Adapt as the Market Idles .4Looking Ahead to 2025:Preparing for What Comes Next .12Generative AI in M&A:Youre Not BehindYet.18Where the Deals Are:2024s Top M&A Markets.22Industries.28M&A in Aerospace&Defense:How Incumbents Can Respond to Well-Fun