This is the definitive crib sheet to see what is happening in global M&A. This edition comprises around 50 pages of comment and data on the key issues in the global M&A market.
Table of Contents
1. Global overview
2. Asia-Pacific
3. Latin America
4. North America
5. Europe
6. Middle East & Africa
Given the scale and scope of the worst economic downturn in decades, it is of little surprise that the global M&A market suffered badly in 2009. A total of 9,493 deals worth US$1.76tn came to the market over the course of the year, representing a decline of more than 25% in terms of both deal volume and value compared to 2008 numbers. Furthermore, global deal volume fell to the lowest level seen since 2003 while the average deal size of US$185m is way down on the US$233m witnessed during the height of the M&A boom in 2007.
Despite this, there are a number of encouraging signs that the M&A market has reached inflection point with deal making conditions and market confidence slowly improving. Indeed, this can be seen to good effect by looking at the quarterly breakdown of 2009 deal flow with announced activity increasing each quarter, trending upwards from 2,093 transactions in Q1 to 2,686 deals in Q4. The second half of 2009 also accounted for 58% of the year's US$1bn+ transactions as the financing environment, market confidence and general economic climate improved. This figure increases further when government-related bail outs of ailing corporations/institutions are excluded from the analysis.
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