Corporate India has put together a whopping $20 billion (Rs 90,000 crore) so far this year to fund its merger and acquisition bills abroad, surpassing all previous full year totals.
India has been ranked second in the global M&A deals this year so far in the Asia-Pacific region, with a total outbound deal value of $13.5 billion, a latest report says.
In July, 43 M&A deals were announced with a total announced value of $583.95 million. Out of the 43 deals 17 were domestic, where in both acquirer and target being Indian and 26 were cross-border deals. In the private equity deal segment similar trend was witnessed. The total number of PE deals during the first seven months of 2008 stands at 215, with an announced value of $7.74 billion as against 224 deals amounting to $9.52 billion during the corresponding period in 2007.
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India along with Japan and China is among the top five countries in the Asia-Pacific region with the highest number of merger and acquisition deals in the first three months of this year, even as the economic downturn has impacted the overall M&A activity in the region.
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According to data compiled by global consultancy firm Grant Thornton, the volume of M&A deals by Indian companies in countries like Brazil, Scotland, Netherlands and Canada is greater than that in the UK. The value of the nine deals in the UK clinched by Indian firms so far this year stands at just $58.50 million, while India Inc acquired four companies in Canada for a total of $166.70 million, one deal in Scotland for $80 million and another in Brazil for over $33 million.
Total FDI from China in India so far is about $1.24 billion
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India ranks second in capital market inflows and fourth in merger and acquisition deals in Asia Pacific (including Japan), as deals worth $65.033 billion were reported in the first eight months of calendar 2007.
The growth in M&As is likely to gather steam as firms within the region and and outside are looking to Asia as the home for growth, it said.
India Inc's appetite for mergers and acquisitions has seen total deal value nearly double in just two months of this year to about $37 billion from $20 billion in the entire 2006.
The aggregate value of merger and acquisition (M&A) transaction involving Indian entities was $20.8 billion last year, down 46.3 per cent over the 2012 figure, global deal tracking firm Mergermarket said.
The total number of M&A deals during the first eight months of this year stood at 346, with an announced value of $22.74 billion as against 456 deals amounting to $48.23 billion in the corresponding period in 2007, according to the data compiled by Grant Thornton. There was an increase in high-value deals in August.
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Notwithstanding the challenges posed by the pandemic, the deal street remained buoyant pushing the overall deal value to a three-year high of $90.4 billion during the first nine months of 2021, a 35.1 per cent increase in value over the same period last year, according to an industry report. During the third quarter ending September, total deals grew by a tepid 3.8 per cent, according to the leading provider of financial markets data and infrastructure globally Refinitiv, an LSEG Business. The report also noted that IPOs alone grabbed as much as $9.1 billion of the deal value during the year.
The central government is likely to notify the merger and acquisition (M&A) rules meant to operationalise M&A provisions prescribed under the Competition Act, 2002 by mid-April.
Global merger and acquisition (M&A) deal volume reached $1.5 trillion in the first half of this year, registering a 22 per cent increase from last year levels, says a report by deal tracking firm Dealogic.
At a time when merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is still recovering, companies are finding solace in private equity (PE) funds for acquisitions. And, PE funds seem keen to participate in such deals.
Private equity (PE) is set to play a bigger role in banks. Of 21 recommendations accepted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) out of 31 made by its Internal Working Group (IWG), its stance on non-promoter holdings in private banks is seen with excitement, though it doesn't refer to PEs explicitly. On non-promoter holdings in these banks, the RBI said this will be capped at 10 per cent of the paid-up voting equity share capital in the case "of natural persons and non-financial institutions and entities"; and "at 15 per cent for all categories of financial institutions, entities, supranational institutions, public sector undertaking, or the government." While this is a modification of the IWG's stance for the non-promoter holding in banks at up to 15 per cent, it does open up a huge window for PEs, all the same. This is because, while the RBI has remained silent on the eligibility of industrial houses for bank licences, fresh high-quality capital in large amounts can only come from PEs.
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The trend is expected to remain bullish in 2015, global consultancy Grant Thornton said
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Consolidation seems to the key word among private equity (PE) backed companies. In the first few months of 2011, about 20 merger & acquisition (M&A) deals worth $150 million took place.
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From the beginning of 2021 Wipro has moved on to a new organisational structure. Analyst tracking the company are now wondering if CEO Thierry Delaporte's attempt to bolster Wipro's presence in the BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) space by acquiring Capco for $1.45 billion is a step taken too early. Though many agree that Capco as a target may be good, but Wipro, which has been the most aggressive player in acquiring firms compared to its Indian players, does not have much to show in terms of performance as it continues to lag peers.
Denying any breach of merger and acquisition (M&A) norms, Aditya Birla group firm Idea Cellular on Tuesday said the company's merger with Spice Communications was approved by court and consummated with the full knowledge of the Department of Telecom.
The drivers are going to be less domestic consolidation and a lot more international expansion.
While the draft M&A policy for the telecom sector has been revised a few times over the past few months, DoT has not made any major changes to guidelines.
