India Inc is likely to witness a continuing surge in merger and acquisition activities after a record number of M&A deals in the first half of 2006 -- aggregating to more than $25 billion.\n\n
Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook are both a boon and a bane for angel investors, VCs as well as start-ups. If the Big Tech companies get broken up and their powers to acquire get significantly curbed therefore, the whole ecosystem will need to change, says Prosenjit Datta.
Trade buyers in emerging economies appear to be losing their appetite for merger and acquisition (M&A) targets in developed nations, says a KMPG report.
The value of India-focused merger and acquisition (M&A) deals touched $39 billion in the first nine months of this year, a significant 31 per cent decline vis--vis the corresponding period last year, global deal tracking firm Dealogic says.
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 year saw 30 QIP deals raising over $5 billion and 35 IPOs.
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.
Sources say companies will have to keep the market share of merged entities below 50% in all circles
Value of M&A deals made by India Inc this year will exceed its 2007 levels.
Private equity investments as well as merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions in the country have witnessed consistent growth so far this year, as deals worth over $52 billion have been announced in this space.
Since he took over as president of Coca-Cola's India and Southwest Asia business a year ago, T Krishnakumar, popularly known as KK, has focused on bringing agility to the company amid heightened competition.
Let's take a look at some of the biggest M&A deals in the world.
Private equity players said their research had shown that the PE share after COVID-19 could go up to 8-10 per cent.
Domestic deals were the flavour of the month as there were 20 such transactions worth $2.77 billion in June 2015.
Driven by Reliance Infratel's $10.86 billion merger deal with GTL Infrastructure, the total value of merger and acquisition deals in the country jumped nine-fold to $24.8 billion in the second quarter of 2010.
Corporate India's merger and acquisition deal activity stood at $1.74 billion in April taking the total M&A kitty so far this year to $21 billion.
The newly-formed entity which will list on the NYSE as Eros STX Entertainment Corp, will remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with headquarters in both Mumbai, India, and Burbank, California, and has also got $125 million in fresh funding. The merger will not change the structure of Eros's Indian arm which is also listed on Indian stock exchanges.
Corporate India's shopping spree continued unabated in the second month of this year, as deals worth over $1.3 billion were announced, a five-fold jump from the year-ago period, a report by global consultancy firm Grant Thornton said.
Corporate India's merger and acquisition deal activity in February stood at $2.3 billion taking the total M&A kitty so far this year to over $5 billion.
The McKinsey report said faster employment growth at 12 million non-farm jobs annually is needed in the post-Covid period till 2029-30, up from just four million created each year between 2012 and 2018.
The year 2009 was a difficult year for Indian merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. However, it established the supremacy of Indian investment bankers (i-bankers) by catapulting them to the top of the league table, leaving their international peers far behind.
An insider said that over the past decade or so Cipla has become immune to the exits of leaders. There have been no directional change in the long-term strategies.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report on Monday that a lower but positive economic growth in India in the post-Covid-19 pandemic period and India's large market will continue to attract market-seeking investments to the country. The World Investment Report 2020 by UNCTAD said that India was the 9th largest recipient of FDI in 2019, with 51 billion dollars of inflows during the year, an increase from the 42 billion dollars of FDI received in 2018, when India ranked 12 among the top 20 host economies in the world.
Some investment bankers expect the Indian currency to touch 60-65 by the end of the year
Experts argue that the top two players in each category will receive funding sooner or later, but for laggards, the market is still challenging
The ripple effects of the fall of Lehman Brothers in September last year is evident in the field of global mergers and acquisitions, which shrank by nearly 40 per cent in the 12-month period since then.
Non-uniform definition of control makes foreign investors wary, raise corporate governance issues.
The proposed $23-billion mega deal between Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN would be India's biggest-ever M&A deal. Let us now take a look at the 10 largest M&A transactions involving an Indian company until now
The year 2015 will be a tough year for mergers and acquisition.
The drivers are going to be less domestic consolidation and a lot more international expansion.
In order to encourage consolidation in the private sector insurance industry, the regulator IRDA on Wednesday said it would come out with a framework for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for the sector by the end of current fiscal.
In order to encourage consolidation in the private sector insurance industry, the regulator IRDA on Wednesday said it would come out with a framework for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for the sector by the end of current fiscal.
Till September this year, corporate India has announced merger and acquisition deals worth $26.43 billion, which is around 0.8 per cent of the total global M&A kitty. Data compiled by deal tracking firm Dealogic shows there has been a slowdown in M&A activity across the world as all regions except Latin America reported decreasing deal volume.
"It is very unlikely that we get an M&A opportunity in India as Indian entrepreneurs are doing very well and whatever expansion we are planning in India would be through greenfield projects," Lakshmi Mittal told journalists.
India and China will be among the top five destinations for merger and acquisition activities across diverse sector over the coming year, according to a report by global consultancy Ernst & Young.
The total volume of merger and acquisition deals with focus on India has almost halved so far this year to $2.7 billion against $5.3 billion last year, according to global deal tracking firm Dealogic.
Though there are various provisions under the Indian income tax laws which encourage M&A activities in India, some of these provisions need to be revisited to further step up the momentum. Further, the scope of some of the concessions needs to be extended to all sectors.
The Budget has relaxed a few safe harbour rules that aim to make it easier for fund managers overseeing offshore India-focused funds to relocate to the country.
Mergers and acquisitions are set to become one of the most important trends of 2007 for India Inc, with the total deal value crossing $50-billion mark with one more month still to go. According to data compiled by international consultancy major Grant Thornton, India Inc recorded M&A deals worth $940 million in November, taking the total for first 11 months of 2007 to $50.79 billion.
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