May 2026 Global M&A Deal Tracker
Every deal that moved markets last month in one editable Excel file
Tracking M&A is a full-time job. Between the wire releases, the banker briefings, the rumor mill on social media, and the regulatory filings, it is genuinely difficult to maintain a clean, current picture of deal activity. This is especially true when covering global markets and sectors simultaneously.
This is one reason you should subscribe to The Buyside Desk. Every subscriber gets access to our monthly Global M&A Tracker. This is a fully editable Excel database covering every significant transaction announced, completed, or credibly rumored in the last month.
No paywalls. No request-access friction. Download it, open it, and make it your own.
The file is a live Excel spreadsheet, not a locked PDF or screenshot. You can filter by sector. You can sort by deal size. You can add your own notes, flag the situations you are watching, and build on top of it however you see fit. We built it to be useful for M&A practitioners, private equity analysts and investors actually work.
The Excel file below includes details on 3262 M&A transactions globally for the month of May 2026