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The USD 57-billion HDFC-HDFC Bank deal helped the overall merger and acquisition activity in the country rise by 40 per cent to reach USD 163 billion in 2022, a report said on Monday. Strategic deals like the one involving the HDFC twins accounted for a bulk USD 126 billion of the overall quantum, while transactions involving private equity funds stood at USD 37 billion, the report by Deloitte, a consultancy firm, said. Despite global headwinds like rising interest rates and elevated inflation levels leading to increased margin pressures for companies, the firm expects the overall activity to remain "strong" in the ongoing 2023. The overall M&A (merger and acquisition) deals were much higher when compared with USD 69 billion in 2019, or USD 88 billion in 2020 amid Covid pandemic, and USD 116 billion in 2021, it said. Going by the number of deals, the figure rose to 911 in 2022, up from 826 in 2021 and 505 in 2020, the firm said. Mega deals valued at over USD 1 billion more than ..