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Mergers-and-acquisitions deals hit new highs in 2015.
Investment bankers working on mergers and acquisitions had an incredible 2015.
A record-high $5.05 trillion in M&A activity took place during the year, according to Dealogic. The year also saw a record 69 deals of over $10 billion, including 10 transactions of over $50 billion, also a record high.
Revenue from these transactions, at $23.5 billion, was the highest of any year but 2007.
That's despite overall global investment-banking revenue being down 8% from 2014, according to Dealogic.
Here are some of the other records broken in 2015:
In the US, targeted M&A volume reached a new record high (up 59% year-on-year), while Asia Pacific targeted M&A broke the $1 trillion mark, a record high.
By sector, healthcare M&A was up 66% from the prior year, hitting a new full-year record of $724.4 billion. Tech M&A hit a record high in terms of volume and activity.
There was also record spin-off volume and near-record highs on global cross-border M&A.
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch all reached record highs in terms of annual advisory volumes.
If that doesn't give you a sense of the kind of year it was, one chart in Dealogic's full-year M&A review might.
It lists the top 10 announced deals of the year, and under "deal characteristics," it shows that every deal broke or nearly broke a record.
That includes Anheuser-Busch InBev's deal for SABMiller, the biggest food and beverage deal on record, and the Dow-DuPont deal, the biggest chemicals deal on record.
Have a look:
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