Acquisition deals involving London-listed companies are causing the British stock market to shrink at its fastest pace in over a decade. This year, about 45 companies have been delisted from the London market due to mergers, a 10% increase from the previous year. It is the year with the largest number of companies leaving the UK market since 2010, with the scale of trades targeting British companies surging by 81% this year, to over $160 billion. Foreign private equity companies are particularly active, with the USA's Capital Research Global Investors completing a deal last month to acquire Balanced Commercial Property Trust Ltd., a London-listed company, for £0.674 billion ($0.852 billion). Sweden's EQT AB also completed a deal in the past few weeks to acquire video game services company Keywords Studios Plc for £2.1 billion, and Thoma Bravo completed a $5.3 billion acquisition of the cybersecurity software provider Darktrace Plc.