mergermarket Spotlight: Russia
21 December, 2012
Mintoi-Chessa Florea speaks to Geoff Spiteri, CIS news editor at mergermarket, about the recent M&A trend in Russia: Consolidation in the soft drinks sector. Athough risks are high, Geoff Spiteri is suggesting that international bidders are interested. For example, Coca Cola and Nestle have made acquisitions, so there is definitely an appetite. This trend is…
The Financial Times and mergermarket M&A Awards
12 December, 2012
The Financial Times and mergermarket named the top M&A dealmakers in Europe at its annual awards ceremony. Hosted at The Savoy in London, this renowned industry event awarded the top dealmakers from the past year across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, hhosted at The Savoy Hotel in London. HSBC reclaimed its title as top…
Alliance of M&A Advisors and mergermarket Announce Strategic Alliance for 2013 AM&AA Global Conference
06 December, 2012
Chicago and New York – December 6, 2012 – The Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors® (AM&AA), the premier international organization serving the educational and resource needs of the middle market M&A profession, and mergermarket, is the leading provider of forward-looking M&A news and intelligence for M&A professionals and corporates around the world, today announced…
mergermarket On Camera: Soma Biswas Talks Private Equity for 2013
05 December, 2012
mergermarket On Camera: Stuart Newman Talks About M&A in the SaaS Space
05 December, 2012
mergermarket On Camera: Monique Lewis Discusses Transaction Trends in Digital Marketing
05 December, 2012
M&A Leadership Council Announces Partnership with mergermarket
04 December, 2012
DALLAS – December 4, 2012 – The M&A Leadership Council today announced that mergermarket, the leading global M&A media service, has joined the Council as strategic partner. The M&A Leadership Council is dedicated to identifying best practices, establishing standards for training and certification and providing methods, tools and expertise to the M&A community. mergermarket is…
mergermarket Debuts 3Q12 Regional Flash Reports – Read All Eight Here
23 October, 2012
mergermarket’s Regional Flash Reports bring local M&A trends and first-person commentary directly to your inbox. Each quarter, the eight Regional Flash Reports will highlight a local dealmaker, as well as feature a regional Target Watch List and a Heat Chart of local Companies for Sale. Looking for more information on a company? mergermarket’s Regional Bureau…
mergermarket Releases Regional M&A Roundup for Q1 – Q3 2012
16 October, 2012
Hong Kong, CN – mergermarket, an independent and proprietary M&A media service, today released its Q3 2012 regional M&A roundup for Asia-Pacific. Please see below report links: Australia Australia MA Round Up Q3 2012 Japan Japan MA Round Up Q3 2012 (English) Japan MA Round Up Q3 2012 (Japanese) South Korea Korea MA Round Up Q3 2012 (English)…
mergermarket Releases Global M&A Round-up of PR Advisers for Q1-Q3 2012
15 October, 2012
New York, NY – mergermarket, an independent and proprietary M&A media service, today released its Q1-Q3 2012 Global M&A Round-up of PR advisers. A full copy of the report can be found here and highlights of the report can be found below: Q3 2012 global M&A at US$ 461bn, down 16.1% from Q2 2012 Q1-Q3 2012 totals…
mergermarket Releases Global M&A Round-up of Legal Advisers for Q1-Q3 2012
08 October, 2012
New York, NY – mergermarket, an independent and proprietary M&A media service, today released its Q1-Q3 2012 Global M&A Round-up of legal advisers. A full copy of the report can be found here and highlights of the report can be found below: Global M&A in Q1-Q3 2012 down 17.4% compared to same period last year…
mergermarket Releases Global M&A Round-up of Financial Advisers for Q1-Q3 2012
02 October, 2012
New York, NY – mergermarket, an independent and proprietary M&A media service, today released its Q1-Q3 2012 Global M&A Round-up of financial advisers. A full copy of the report can be found here and highlights of the report can be found below: Global M&A in Q1-Q3 2012 down 19.4% compared to same period last year •…
mergermarket Spotlight: Sarah Syed talks about Informa being the subject of a lot of rumors
21 September, 2012
Sarah Syed, Private Equity correspondent at mergermarket, talks about how Axel Springer was wrongly cited as a potential bidder for the Informa Group. mergermarket’s sources put the message straight. In fact, it was Springer Science & Business Media. As a journalist, Sarah Syed, is not allowed to say who her sources are. However, she is…
mergermarket Spotlight: Paul Francis Grey talks about Private Equity’s interest in Financial Services
21 September, 2012
Mintoi Chessa Flora talks to Paul Francis Grey, financial services correspondent at mergermarket, about the current trend of financial services backed asset’s interest in Private Equity. Paul Francis Grey points out that we are looking at a very different landscape than six years ago. A lot of banks are looking to restructure, which allows private…
mergermarket Spotlight: Beranger Guille talks about French Telecoms
02 August, 2012
Mintoi Chessa- Florea talks to Beranger Guille, editor at mergermarket, about the current state of French telecom operators and how they are reacting to the market conditions. He touches upon the regulatory landscape and the potential of infrastructure sharing. Beranger Guille mentions that the telecoms players definitely need to react. We are seeing some competitive…
mergermarket Spotlight: Nuala Gallagher talks about Mining M&A
02 August, 2012
Mintoi Chessa-Florea talks to Nuala Gallagher, mining correspondent at mergermarket, about China and Kyrgyzstan. She highlights how Kyrgyzstan is an interesting place to look at at the moment because of ‘China Gold.’ China and Kyrgyzstan are the world leaders at the moment when it comes to natural resources. This makes a lot of Western mining…
PR Week
31 July, 2012
Sard leadsMergermarket US M&A adviser list by Brittaney Kiefer NEW YORK: Sard Verbinnen & Co. advised on M&A deals worth a total of $79 billion in the first half of 2012, ranking the firm first in the US in the Mergermarket League Tables of PR Advisers. Sard advised on 49 US deals in the…
Associated Press
31 July, 2012
Don’t make a big deal out of it By CHRISTINA REXRODE, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More companies are getting together these days, but it’s no big deal. Corporate mergers and acquisitions were up for the first six months of this year in the United States, but only if you measure a certain…
mergermarket Releases H1 2012 PR Adviser League Tables
10 July, 2012
Highlights of the H1 2012 PR League Tables include: Global M&A in H1 2012 at US$ 968.5bn, down 18.3% on same period last year Q2 2012 total of US$ 536.3bn, reverses five consecutive quarterly declines US H1 2012 M&A activity lowest half-year total since 2003 Brunswick Group tops global PR advisers league table A full…
mergermarket Releases H1 2012 Global M&A Round-Up of Legal Advisers
05 July, 2012
Highlights of the report include: Global M&A in H1 2012 falls 21.6% compared to same period last year • Q2 2012 total of US$ 494.9bn, reverses five consecutive quarterly declines • Third-lowest first-half total since H1 2004 Clifford Chance tops global legal advisory league table by deal value for H1 2012 • Clifford Chance beats…
mergermarket Releases Global M&A Round-Up for H1 2012
02 July, 2012
Highlights of the report include: Global M&A in H1 2012 falls 21.4% compared to same period last year • US$ 931.4bn of M&A equal to a 21.4% decline on H1 2011 • Q2 2012 total of US$ 494.9bn, reverses five consecutive quarterly declines • Third-lowest first-half total since H1 2004 Goldman Sachs tops global advisory…
Wall Street Journal – Private Equity Beat
25 June, 2012
By Mohammed Aly Sergie Mergers and acquisitions in the industrial and chemicals markets have rebounded to 2007 levels, driven by international expansion as well as private equity exits and distressed deals in the manufacturing and automotive sectors, according to a report by law firm Squire Sanders and data provider Mergermarket. Midmarket deals valued between $5…
mergermarket Releases Exclusive M&A Spotlight on Latin America
07 June, 2012
Latin America’s M&A, Private Equity and IPO Markets Have Shown Relative Resilience Despite Global Slowdown NEW YORK, NY- Jun 7, 2012 – mergermarket, an independent and proprietary M&A media service, today released an M&A Spotlight report focusing on Latin America. The report takes a look at merger and acquisition trends in Latin American countries, including…
mergermarket’s and dealReporter’s newly launched ECM platform to provide actionable live news and origination content
29 May, 2012
Hong Kong – Tuesday, 29 May 2012- mergermarket and dealReporter are excited to announce a new service offering that provides unparalleled coverage of Asia Pacific equity capital markets. The offering covers an extensive range of live IPOs, follow-on offerings, block trades, convertible bonds and other ECM deals in markets across the region, producing up-to-the minute…
mergermarket talks about Healthcare M&A
23 May, 2012
Mintoi Chessa-Florea, head of healthcare coverage at mergermarket, talks about how the healthcare sector is one of the few that is being resilient to the current economic climate.
mergermarket talks on M&A in Africa
21 May, 2012
Elaine Green, senior deputy editor at mergermarket, reports on M&A activity in Africa. In the first quarter of 2011, Africa had a deal value of 10.9 billion dollars. Although this slowed down during the rest of the year, the total deal value for 2011 was 26.8 billion dollars. This year there is a lot of…
mergermarket talks on Africa Forum 2012 in partnership with Iberian Lawyer
17 May, 2012
Giovanni Amodeo, global editor in chief at mergermarket, talks about mergermarket’s partnership with The Iberian Legal Group’s African Forum 2012 for the third consecutive year and the current trends that mergermarket is seeing in the region.
mergermarket talks on Nordic M&A
17 May, 2012
Kasper Viio, global assistant editor at mergermarket, talks about how the Nordic region has lost its resilience to the continental sovereign troubles. Volumes and values of M&A deals have fallen significantly, especially in the small to mid-cap deals. mergermarket held the Nordic M&A forum in Stockholm on 13 June.
mergermarket talks on Private Equity deal flow 2012
21 April, 2012
mergermarket Releases Latin America M&A Round-Up for Q1 2012
20 April, 2012
Highlights from the report include the following: Third consecutive quarter decline in Latin America’s M&A activity Latin America M&A activity declined for the third consecutive quarter during Q1 2012, with an aggregate 118 deals worth US$ 20.1bn. Compared to the same period in 2011 (157 deals worth US$ 39.6bn), M&A dipped 49.2% by deal value.…
High level of German insolvencies seen as European bellwether
19 April, 2012
London, 19 April 2012 – This year is on course to see the highest number of insolvencies, and subsequent takeovers of German companies, since the financial crisis took hold in 2008, according to mergermarket data. The first quarter saw 16 such deals take place. Previous years saw levels around the mid-50s, peaking at 59 in…
mergermarket Releases Q1 2012 League Tables for Global PR Advisers
11 April, 2012
Highlights of the press release include: US$ 419.3bn in global M&A, down 30.6% on Q1 2011 Fifth consecutive quarterly decline Europe the only region to show a quarter-on-quarter increase RLM Finsbury tops global PR advisory league table Please click here to download the full press release.
mergermarket Releases Q1 2012 League Tables for Global Legal Advisers
10 April, 2012
Highlights from the press release include: Global M&A falls 30.3% compared to Q1 2011 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer tops global advisory league table Asia-Pacific deals at lowest level since Q3 2009 Europe only region to show quarterly increase US activity down sharply Private equity buyouts account for 10.2% of global M&A Private equity exit premiums at…
mergermarket Releases Q1 2012 League Tables for Global FA Advisers
02 April, 2012
Highlights from the press release include: Global M&A falls 31.2% compared to Q1 2011 Goldman Sachs tops global advisory league table Asia-Pacific deals at lowest level since Q3 2009 Europe only region to show quarterly increase Private equity buyouts account for 10.3% of global M&A Global M&A did not have a bright start to 2012…
mergermarket to host Israeli dealmakers in San Francisco
29 February, 2012
Event to address trends in Israeli M&A and opportunities for cross-border collaboration Tel Aviv/San Francisco - mergermarket, an independent mergers and acquisitions intelligence service, is proud to host in association with Herzog Fox Neeman (HFN) and the California Israel Chamber of Commerce an event examining cross-border opportunities between the United States West Coast and Israel. In…
mergermarket and Merrill DataSite Publish 2011 Deal Drivers, EMEA
14 February, 2012
M&A outlook varied across the EMEA region as businesses continue to be affected by the sovereign debt crisis and ongoing instability London, 14 February 2012: The full-year 2011 edition of EMEA Deal Drivers, published by mergermarket in association with Merrill DataSite, provides an extensive review of M&A activity in the EMEA region, offering a detailed…
League Tables of Legal Advisers to Global M&A for Year End 2011
13 January, 2012
mergermarket Announces Year End 2011 League Tables of Legal Advisers Sullivan & Cromwell tops the global M&A legal advisory tables by value New York - January 13, 2012 - mergermarket, an independent and proprietary M&A intelligence and data service, today announced its findings for the Year End 2011 Global Legal Adviser League Tables. Highlights from the report…
Financial Times and mergermarket Announce 2011 Americas M&A Awards
10 January, 2012
Financial Times and mergermarket Announce 2011 Americas M&A Awards Corporate Deal of the Year awarded to Express Scripts and Medco Health Private Equity Deal of the Year awarded to Blackstone buyout New York - January 10, 2012 - The Financial Times and mergermarket today announced the winners for their 2011 Americas M&A Awards. The winners were based…
