Steve Monnington of Mayfield Media Strategies runs the rule over the latest global exhibition deals. There was a flurry of acquisition activity at the end of 2017, which brought the total number of reported transactions to 63 involving 33 different buyers. This compares to 73 transactions with 39 different buyers in 2016. The main eight acquirers, with 33 transactions between them, were the Private Equity-owned bus...