The global M&A market has hit the pause button in 1H 2022, after soaring to an all-time peak in 2021, said a study.

Early 2022 saw the value of large deals (more than $25 million) fall 24 percent from a year earlier, on a 12 percent drop in deal volume, according to McKinsey M&A Practice review of the global M&A market.

However, the 2022 numbers match healthy