2017 saw a period of intense activity for Livingstone's business services sector team, due to a busy global market and supportive macro-economic backdrop. 

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Across the globe, both purchase price multiples, as well as leverage levels, continue to surpass previous cycle peaks and the ready availability of both equity and debt capital should allow this pace to continue for the foreseeable future. 

With enterprise values (EVs) across all sectors at near all-time highs, it's no coincidence leverage levels have followed suit.

In 2018, for the first time ever, companies are expected to spend more of their media marketing dollars online than offline: $100.8bn on digital media compared to $97.8bn on offline media. 

All over Europe, facilities management is coming of age. In Germany, the current round of consolidation continues to mature the sector around a few major players.

In more and more industries, we are seeing two kinds of businesses emerge: those that have effectively integrated IT into their processes and those who haven't. 

To begin with, the fundamentals are good since companies of all sizes, in most places, have gotten the message that outsourcing non-core tasks can save money, time and grief.