Monthly M&A Insider: October16 October 2009

This is the definitive crib sheet to see what is happening in global M&A. This edition comprises of over 200 pages of comment, data and statistics on the key issues in key M&A territories.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Kraft, Cadbury and industry consolidation

3. Japanese financial services reshuffling buoys M&A - but will deals continue to flow?

4. CVC to acquire CEE brewing businesses

5. North America

6. Latin America

7. Asia-Pacific

8. China

9. Japan

10. Australia

11. Europe

12. UK

13. Germany

14. France

15. Italy

16. Benelux

17. Iberia

18. Nordic

19. CEE/CIS

20. Russia

21. MENA

Global M&A activity remains at a slow pace, although the re-appearance of bigger trade deals, such as the potential Cadbury/Kraft deal, demonstrate that the market is showing signs of improvement. According to mergermarket data, 979 deals at a total value of EUR114bn have been completed globally since the 1 September. In the same period last year there were 1,519 deals at a total value of EUR296.7bn.

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