Welcome to the seventh edition of Appleby's Offshore-i, which we produce on a quarterly basis to provide insights into the mergers and acquisitions activity going on in the major offshore markets, where we do the majority of our business.

In this report we analyse the transactions that took place in the third quarter of 2013 across all of the key offshore jurisdictions around the globe. Our findings indicate a marked stabilisation of transaction levels within offshore borders with the number of deals done, and the value of those deals, broadly consistent with the first two quarters of 2013.

The offshore transactional markets, which as key international financial centres represent critical links in the global supply chain of trade and investment flows worldwide, are finally exhibiting signs of robustness after several years of volatility. That is a development we have been looking out for since we began our Offshore-i series, and we view it as a critical requirement of a sustainable macroeconomic recovery

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