Some Interesting M&A Data
Provided by Mergermarket, a Partner of M&A Leadership Council
With two blockbuster mega-deals occurring in the third quarter of this year and overall M&A on the decline, September became the highest-valued month despite having the lowest number of deals. Bayer’s US$65.3bn takeover of Monsanto and Enbridge’s US$40.6bn purchase of Spectra Energy contributed to the 42.8% increase in deal value over September 2015. Global statistics point to the Industrial & Chemicals sector as having the most dramatic surge in value from Q1 to Q3, with deals in the sector totaling US$416.8bn, up 41.1%. While most of these increases in values can be attributed to mega-deals, an overall decline in M&A resulted in 221 fewer deals in September when compared to the same month a year earlier.
Highlights from this report include:
- North America had the highest deal value by region, making up nearly half (47.1%) of worldwide values for the first three quarters of the year
- One of the largest PE transactions of 2016 came in September with the US$7.2bn purchase of Australia-based Port of Melbourne Corporation by a consortium of global pension funds and PE firms
- Cross-border dealmaking, which gave four of the top five largest deals by value for the year, remains robust despite declining slightly by 8.9% to a total worth of US$924.2bn
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