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in Poland, which could show that fears over the damage to the investment climate caused by
the country’s rightwing populist government are exaggerated, or at least that this is causing some investors to leave and others to double down.
Turkey was up 11.5% in deal volume and 46% in value to €7.6bn but was still well below the pre- coup levels of 2012-13. In fourth place, Czech dealmaking fell 13% in volume and more than halved to €4.35bn after 2016’s record year.
Among the rising markets, dealmaking in Romania rose 13% by volume and 64% by value to €3.26bn as the country’s economy booms. Hungary had the biggest increase in the value of deals, up 126% to €2.7bn.
Real estate and construction was the most active sector in terms of the number of deals, followed by manufacturing, and then telecoms and IT. By value, mining (which includes oil and gas) was again the biggest, driven by a slew of large Russian deals, followed by real estate and construction, with manufacturing rising to third.
Private equity investment (which the report classifies very widely as any deal made by
a non-strategic investor) was flat in terms
of the number of deals but down 25% in value to €21.4bn.
Law firm CMS once again claimed top spot for the number of deals it advised on (57), with Dentons once again in second place with 44.
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