Ever felt so hungry, it wasn’t until after inhaling the entire sleeve of Oreos that you finally processed how much sugar and fat you just recklessly consumed? The titans of Corporate America may be right there...
October smashes merger records as companies turn to mega deals
London: Forget merger Monday: October as a whole was a record month for dealmaking, with almost half a trillion dollars of mergers and acquisitions announced globally. CenturyLink Inc.’s $34 billion acquisition of Level...
Mid-market drives M&A activity in Asia-Pacific: Report
Mid-market merger and acquisition deals accounted for 58% of the total Asia-Pacific deal volume in 2016 so far and the trend is expected to continue due to economic volatility in the region, says a report. Amid the...
In M&A, ratings soft-pedal risks in borrowing binge
Mexico City: A decade after the triple-A failures of the subprime era, grade inflation is back on Wall Street. This time, Moody’s Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings Inc. are cutting companies slack on mergers...
Polish Merger Market Heats Up as Growth, Nationalism Spur Deals
Poland’s sharp turn toward what its year-old government calls economic patriotism has activated the deal market. Economic growth at more than twice the rate of the euro area, a nationalist government that wants to forge...
Markets round-up: M&A activity at 22-month high in September
M&A (mergers and acquisitions) deals touched a 22-month high of $5.6 billion in September, according to Grant Thornton India Llp. The measure stood at $7.1 billion in November 2014. One of the key reasons for the...
Germany considers protecting firms from foreign takeovers: newspaper
The German Economy Ministry wants to protect high-tech companies in Germany from unwanted takeovers, especially from state-owned and partly state-owned companies in non-European countries, a German newspaper reported on...
M&A activity up 125% with deals worth $32.5 billion
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in India more than doubled in terms of value during the nine months ended 30 September, helped mainly by large deals, with the third quarter recording the highest deal values, shows a...
India Inc’s January-September deal tally hits its peak at $46 billion
NEW DELHI: India Inc’s merger and acquisition activity reached a record level of USD 46 billion in January-September this year, up 36 per cent in value terms over the whole of 2015, says a report. According to...
M&A deals slowdown by 50% in July-Sept quarter: Venture Intelligence
MUMBAI: The merger and acquisition which had seen a fast rise in last one year seem to have hit a bump as both private equity as well as venture capital investments in India declined by 50% in value terms in July...
Forget what you have read: Most mergers create value
“Mergers fail more often than marriages.” So ran a headline on CNN’s website a few years back, accompanying a story referring to a 2004 study by Bain & Co., which found that 70% of mergers failed to increase...
M&A deal value grows three-fold in August: Grant Thornton report
Overall deal activity in 2016 till date has remained steady, with strong growth in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) driving a six per cent rise in value over a year before; private equity (PE) investments sustained...
