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title: "Fewer Deals. Bigger Bets."
date: 2025-10-01
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summary: "Key takeaways from PwC's 2025 Mid-Year Global M&A Outlook."
questionTitle: "What is happening to M&A volume in the energy transition?"
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📉 Fewer deals
📈 Bigger bets
(per PwC's 2025 Mid-Year Global M&A Outlook, link below, global M&A volumes keep sliding—down 9% in H1 2025 vs. H1 2024—even as deal values are up 15%)

Insurance—coverage, cost, pre- and post-transaction—can be a hidden lever for **protecting value** or deliberately **creating it**.

***For example*** : if it costs the Seller $X annually to insure certain assets, but only $0 for the Buyer (by folding the assets into an existing insurance program), how should those assets really be valued?

**Small missteps can change the math.**

Fewer deals, bigger bets.
Bigger bets, less room for regrets.

👉 [**PwC](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pwc/)**’s 2025 Mid-Year Global M&A Industry Trends Outlook [https://lnkd.in/gwFj-mQN](https://lnkd.in/gwFj-mQN)
👉 [**Marsh](https://www.linkedin.com/company/marsh/)**'s Six risky missteps that highlight the need for quality M&A due diligence [https://lnkd.in/gQFhGAfS](https://lnkd.in/gQFhGAfS)

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