Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chairman Ajay Tyagi on Wednesday said the regulator was not against the merger of exchanges. Speaking on the sidelines of an event organised by Associated Chambers of...
M&As on the rise as tech companies focus on top line growth
Consolidation in the mid-tier IT and ITeS segment is on the rise as companies are increasingly chasing top line growth in a globally sluggish software services market. Moreover, attractive valuations of these firms are...
Global M&A hits record $2 trillion in year to date
Global mergers and acquisitions have already reached $2 trillion in 2018, a record for the value of deals in the period, Thomson Reuters data showed on Tuesday. A flurry of deals at the start of the week, particularly...
April sees M&A deals zoom 850% YoY in value terms: Grant Thornton report
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in the country increased to 40 deals in April 2018 from 29 reported for the corresponding month of last year, a report showed on Thursday. According to Grant Thornton’s M&A...
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code set for major overhaul
India’s bankruptcy law, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), is set for a major overhaul as policymakers seek to decisively deal with business failures that slow down expansion in Asia’s third-largest economy. The...
Global mergers and acquisitions reach record high of $1.2 trillion in Q1
Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) had their strongest start ever in the first quarter of 2018, totaling $1.2 trillion in value, as US tax reform and faster economic growth in Europe unleashed many...
India Inc announces M&A deals worth $1,893 mn in February: Thornton report
Corporate India announced merger and acquisition (M&A) deals worth $1,893 million in February this year, registering a 40 percent increase in value terms over the year-ago period was driven by big-ticket...
India Inc sees M&A deals worth $15 bn in Jan as domestic deals gain pace
Corporate India’s merger and acquisition (M&A) activity witnessed over six-fold increase in year-on-year deal value to approximately USD 15 billion in January, primarily on account of revived domestic deal...
Budget 2018 shocker for M&As: Entities to pay 20% DDT with retro effect?
The Budget has proposed to tax all mergers and amalgamations in which a company with higher accumulated profits merged with a company with lower profits or made losses and reduced capital to avoid paying dividend...
Telecom, technology and BFSI push India M&A activity to over $50 billion in 2017
In 2017, India’s M&A activity reached the second highest annual deal value since 2001, according to deals tracker Mergermarket, with 379 deals worth $54.7 billion. This is only slightly less than the peak registered...
From pharma to finance, dealmakers off to hottest start of year since 2000
From pharma to finance, dealmaking in 2018 is on fire around the globe. Just three weeks into the year, the value of mergers announced totals $152.5 billion. That’s the highest since the $374 billion racked up in the...
Consolidation, expansion set to drive M&A activity this year: EY
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in India is expected to remain positive, driven by domestic consolidation, market share expansion and entry into new markets, according to EY’s 17th Global Capital Confidence...
