Why does the world's fastest-growing major consumer of energy fail to attract investments in oil and gas? This is a question worth pondering after private sector conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) failed to close a $15-billion downstream asset deal with Saudi Arabia's national oil company, Aramco. It's understandable if multi-billion dollar investments in oil and gas projects or deals involving state companies that need to traverse a complex bureaucracy at state and federal levels and the corridors of ministries unravel. However, Mukesh Ambani-run RIL, India's most successful energy company, is not typically known to fumble on closing deals (Ambani closed deals worth around Rs 2 trillion early last year in telecom and retail with blue chip investors).
Zomato's initial public offer (IPO) is scheduled to open for subscription on July 14 and is priced between Rs 72 - 74 per share. At the upper end of the price band of the offering, the company aims to raise Rs 9,350 crore. Most analysts have given a 'subscribe' rating to the issue for listing gains.
Outbound deal count in the current calendar year fell to 100 from 154 in 2012.
Zostel could get upwards of $600 million if arbitration goes through.
The Indian M&A figure is even more impressive over a 12 month period.
'India is still a small market but whatever we do, we do it with full focus.'
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.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown may have put the best of funds on a backfoot of deal activity, RIL, however, has been an outlier. With 10 different investors brought in for its telecom venture Jio Platforms, RIL undertook 12 different transactions since April this year.
India attracted an estimated $49 billion FDI in 2019, a 16 per cent increase from the $42 billion recorded in 2018.
Considering the June quarter numbers have been softer, as compared to the past quarters, and the overall macro environment is yet again under a cloud, Indian IT services should seriously look at the new normal
In the corresponding period of the last year, there were 614 deals worth $ 27.7 billion.
The contraction in M&A activity in India contrasts sharply with the upbeat global picture, much of it led by a reviving US economy.
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.
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According to global deal tracking firm Dealogic, the deal value in the January to June period this year was the lowest first six months deal value recorded since 2009, when $1.09 trillion worth of transactions were announced.
Private Equity investment in Q1, 2015 witnessed a year- on-year jump of 30 per cent to $2.6 billion.
Albeit muted for most part of the year, Deal Street in India has clocked M&As worth $29 billion in 2014 and expects the size to get larger with transactions worth over $40 billion in the New Year.
Before the pandemic hit the world and led to shutdowns, the company had received nearly half a dozen offers. But bidders are now withdrawing. They want to reassess the situation. They want to conserve cash and avoid acquisition.
Infosys has a new M&A head to enhance trust on inorganic growth.
After a strict lockdown impacting sales, India has returned to the growth path again, Anglo-Dutch FMCG major Unilever has said. The return of growth of India business, along with Brazil and continued recovery in China, helped the company's emerging markets clock a growth of 5.3 per cent in the September 2020 quarter.
The trend is expected to remain bullish in 2015, global consultancy Grant Thornton said
The deal street has come out of the record lows in the pandemic-washed out June quarter with transaction value growing almost 6 per cent to $21.64 billion in the July-September quarter, thanks to a string of equity sales by Reliance in its telecom and retail arms, says a report.
Reflective of the conglomerate's ambition to turn into a consumer-driven business, most of the 33 acquisitions in the last financial year were for its digital, retail, or related verticals.
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.
In terms of number of deals as well, there was a significant slump as there were just 51 deals recorded in January 2013, down 53 per cent compared to January 2012 when 109 deals were recorded.
Though the global M&A volume has reached a whopping $3 trillion mark, it represents a decline of 22 per cent from its year ago period, as all regions except Latin America reported decreasing M&A volume, according to data compiled by deal tracking firm Dealogic.
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In January, the company had decided to hand the charge of M&A to Suri.
In the September quarter of 2011, the overall value of M&A transactions stood at $6.9 billion.
Reflecting the general weakness in the economy, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) involving domestic companies were down by 11.5 per cent to $31.5 billion in the year just gone-by, the lowest since 2009 when it had stood at $21.5 billion.
The surge in deal value is largely due to the $12.9 bn Essar-Rosneft deal
While UltraTech Cement has been the biggest value creator adding nearly Rs 99,000 crore to its market capitalisation, Grasim Industries has added around Rs 27,000 crore to its market cap.
United Kingdom is the second most targeted nation for global M&A in 2009 YTD, with USD 56.3 billion via 806 deals, accounting for 6.3 per cent of global M&A activity, behind the United States which accounts for 36.8 per cent," according to deal tracking firm Dealogic. The global M&A deal tally has reached over $893 billion so far this year.
With India's GDP clocking a lower contraction of 7.5 per cent in the September quarter, industry and experts expressed confidence of further recovery in the coming months and said the government's actions are bearing fruit. In a tweet, Vedanta chairman Anil Agarwal said, "Q2 #GDP numbers show that economy is recovering. Government's efforts on stimulus and reform are showing results. Hopefully, we will have positive growth in H2 FY21 and double digit growth in FY22."
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.
India accounted for a meagre 5.1 per cent of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals among emerging countries in the first nine months this year, the lowest in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations.
The telecom to look at opportunities to acquire another firm in India.
Hindustan Unilever Ltd, India's largest personal care product maker, on Tuesday reported a better-than-expected increase in its September quarter net profit and revenues, signalling a revival of demand following the world's biggest lockdown.
Merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the global technology sector amounted to USD 56.4 billion in the July-September quarter of 2011, an increase of 22 per cent vis-a-vis the year-ago period, according to a report by Ernst & Young.
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