SAN FRANCISCO – Dealmaking in "really robust" 2014 easily outstripped the previous year, with 3,141 agreements nailed down that year, valued at about $382.7 billion, as compared to 2013's total of just over 2,100, worth about $158 billion, said Vinay Singh, senior deals analyst with Thomson Reuters Recap – "a third as many total deals, [with] well over twice as much" money involved.