📣 Your essential M&A update is here! Discover our 1H24 Highlights report now: https://lnkd.in/e5ZpDunp Global M&A volume grew 17% YoY to USD 1.6trn in the first half of 2024, driven by a resurgence in activity in North America. Corporate buyers have reclaimed the spotlight, accounting for 73% of the deal volume—a return to pre-pandemic levels. Notably, seven of the top 10 deals involved strategic buyers from traditional industries: 🏦 Financial Services: Capital One ⛽ Oil and Gas: Diamondback Energy & ConocoPhillips 🛒 Retail: Home Depot 💊 Pharmaceuticals: Novo 💻 Software: Synopsys (the only tech deal in the top 10) Explore these insights and more in our full report!
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Following our Mergermarket H1 2024 M&A Highlights, I was delighted to share my thoughts in Fortune on how shifting expectations on interest rate cuts have been impacting dealmaking this year. The surge in Q1 deals was driven by a general market confidence linked to hopes of a series of interest rate cuts at the start of the year. Listed corporates roared back into the dealmaking arena with multi-billion dollar buys both as acquirers, using their shares as currency for transactions, and sellers given shareholders' appetite to crystallize returns. However, with rate expectations pulling back to a more modest level, M&A has followed. Read my thoughts on these trends and much more, drawing on Mergermarket’s data, for Fortune here: https://lnkd.in/eJgd5bQs #Mergermarket #deals #growth #mergers
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Companies are selling off bigger pieces of their business to slim down and cut debt as the pace of dealmaking picks up. The size of divestment deals is up 11% so far this year, driven by prolonged, tough macroeconomic conditions. Check out this piece in The Wall Street Journal featuring data from Mergermarket and analysis from our very own Kevin Ketcham 👇
Completed divestment deals – companies selling off parts of their business to slim down and cut debt – are up 11% this year, even though numbers of deals are down about 10%. I was very pleased to speak to Dean Seal at The Wall Street Journal about what this Mergermarket data means. This suggests that companies are selling off bigger pieces of their businesses rather than routinely trimming their portfolios. Difficult macroeconomic conditions are driving this trend as companies are motivated to divest parts of their businesses that are reducing profits. Meanwhile, moderating inflation numbers and some clarity on rate expectations seem to be giving bidders a little more confidence, setting up an improved an environment for exploring divestitures. You can read more about this in Dean’s piece, here: https://lnkd.in/dAd9B4XR #deals #divestment #business #debt #economics
Companies Shed Bigger Assets to Slash Debt, Get Lean
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Japanese conglomerate Mitsui is the frontrunner in an auction for 40% of Philippines-based Terra Solar, according to three sources familiar. Mitsui, through its local unit Mit-Renewables Philippine Corporation, has a joint venture with Meralco’s renewables arm MGen Renewable Energy (MGreen) – which holds 55.96% of SP New Energy Group – which owns Terra Solar. The second round of bids is due in August: https://lnkd.in/gFuXnN5W
Mitsui frontrunner for Terra Solar’s minority sale, sources say
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A growing number of large North American TMT transactions helped lift first-half volume above last year’s decade lows. Volume for TMT deals announced in 1H24 totaled USD 239.6bn, up 68% from the USD 142.6bn tallied in 1H23, Mergermarket data shows. The five largest TMT transactions of the first half were announced in the first two months of the year, including Synopsys’ USD 35bn acquisition of Ansys, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s USD 14bn buy of Juniper Networks: https://lnkd.in/gyn_KKS7
North America TMT Trendspotter: Dealmakers eye late-year M&A rebound after 1H24 volume surge
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The last few years have seen large numbers of deals in the 3D printing space in EMEA as players have tried to build scale to confront the opportunity, with Israeli companies leading the charge. The most impressive year so far was 2021 as dealmakers struggled with fragile supply chains in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Mergermarket data. There were 44 deals in 2021 with aggregate volumes of EUR 4.7bn, up sharply from EUR 1.2bn across 29 deals in 2020. In 2022, the number of deals and their disclosed value decreased to 34 transactions worth EUR 906m, but in 2023 the total jumped again to 29 deals worth EUR 1.24bn. More here: https://lnkd.in/gH6e2waR
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Alphabet’s proposed USD 23bn acquisition of security startup Wiz will reset valuation expectations for the sector and provide a catalyst for more M&A, industry experts say. Snehal Antani, CEO of Silicon Valley cybersecurity startup https://lnkd.in/gAEi2A3J, predicts a near-term surge in Wiz-like competitors that will try to get themselves acquired citing the price premium Google has offered Wiz. More here: https://lnkd.in/gcv5zMTG
Alphabet’s bid for Wiz to unlock new wave of enterprise software consolidation – sources
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Expectations were high at the start of the year for Australia’s M&A market to stage a comeback after a muted 2023, but following lukewarm numbers in 1H24, dealmakers are now betting on the second half, or even next year, to be the real game. Australia recorded 411 deals in 1H24, its lowest half-year count for almost 20 years, while total deal volume of USD 34.5bn was at its lowest since 2H20, according to Mergermarket data. This year had a strong start, with a series of billion-dollar transactions in the building materials sector and take-private deals. The market then softened in the second quarter, before picking up in recent weeks. More here: https://lnkd.in/g82nSHb5
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European lawyers are keen to start working with the continent’s startups and tech companies on their M&A strategies as early in the cycle as possible, experts said. The tech scene is a fruitful source of mandates. European tech deals began to boom in 2019, with 4,261 deals worth an aggregate EUR 133.6bn, according to Mergermarket data. Volumes fell a little in 2020 (EUR 114.8bn over 4,348 transactions) but hit a decade-long high in 2021 (EUR 188.7bn over 4,782 deals). The pace dropped in 2023, even though total deal volume is still high by historical standards (EUR 88.5bn over 3,346 deals). More here: https://lnkd.in/gdqQnbfG
European legal advisors seek to begin working with tech firms as early as possible - DealTech
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