After a lull earlier this year, activity in mergers and acquisitions has picked up in India, led by multibillion-dollar cross-border deals and the involvement of global private equity funds and local firms. Increasingly...
Goldman Sachs Predicts Potential Record-Breaking M&A in 2026
Goldman Sachs Inc. expects a major ramp-up in dealmaking toward the end of the year, with a chance that 2026 proves a record year for M&A. The bank predicts deal flow of around $3.1 trillion globally this year...
How virtual data rooms simplify mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions become important in fast-growing economies like India, as businesses look to expand, consolidate, or attract global investors. With deals worth nearly $85 billion recorded in 2023, India’s...
M&A activity drops 17 pc to $50 billion in January-June 2025
Mergers and acquisitions activity dropped to USD 50 billion in the first half of 2025, down 17 per cent when compared with the year-ago period, a report said on Tuesday. When compared with the July-December 2024 period...
Hailey Bieber’s Rhode brand sold to e.l.f. Beauty in $1 billion deal targeting Gen Z
Model Hailey Bieber’s makeup and skincare brand, Rhode, is being snapped up by Elf Beauty ELF.N for about $1 billion, giving the budget cosmetic retailer access to a celebrity-endorsed product line that has become...
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Informatica
Thoma Bravo and Cloud Software Group were part of the five interested buyers of the asset, that person and another person familiar with the process said. Salesforce said it would buy Informatica for about $8 billion...
CCI nod only after CoC: Govt working on amendments to insolvency law
The government may amend the insolvency law to stipulate that a resolution plan will require the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) approval only after it’s endorsed by the committee of creditors (CoC) and not...
Slew of PSU stake sales soon; govt plans to divest 6.5% in LIC in tranches
The government plans to divest a 6.5 per cent stake in Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India in tranches over the next 24 months, while kicking off a slew of share sales in central public-sector enterprises (CPSEs)...
M&A deal signing hits 20 year-low after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’
Bankers and CEOs hit the brakes on mergers and acquisitions after U.S. President Donald Trump launched a global trade war on April 2, with fewer deals getting signed than during the bleakest days of the COVID-19...
M&A deals likely to surge in 2025-26 amid market volatility: experts
Mergers and acquisitions in India will likely see a surge in volumes in 2025-26 both because of a volatile equity market and strong corporate balance sheets, said investment bankers and dealmakers at the Mint India...
Law changes on cards for quick CCI nod for distressed asset sales after SC order
The government is exploring urgent legislative changes to ensure swift approvals from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for the sale of distressed assets after a Supreme Court (SC) order cast a cloud over...
Merger & Acquisition rules for small cos may be relaxed to ease compliance
The ministries of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) and corporate affairs are weighing proposals to relax merger and acquisition (M&A) rules for smaller enterprises to push them to gain scale and reduce...
