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.
'The deal pipeline across products is robust for 2024.'
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.
US was the top nation with $395.7 billion, followed by China at $52.2 billion.
Inbound cross-regional deals, however, accounted for just 12 per cent of total Asia Pacific volume, down 4 percentage points compared to that in 2008, the report added. Within the Asia Pacific region, Australia was the most targeted nation as it attracted $128.2 billion through billion-dollar deals announced during the year.
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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.
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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.
In fact, the companies have already raised $8.9 billion even before this year-end as against $9 billion raised last year, says Dealogic.
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.
The largest targeted emerging market deal on record is Prudential's $35.5-billion bid for AIG's Asian insurance unit AIA Group Ltd.
The year 2009 was a difficult year for Indian merger and acquisition deals.
"Lending to India is the highest in the region with $3.3 billion via 11 loans, accounting for 22.1 per cent of total volume in 2009," the report said
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.
According to leading deal tracking firm Dealogic, Global IPO volume stood at $5.6 billion till January 21, 2010, up from just $72 million in the same period last year.
Indian acquisitions have dropped to $27.3 billion in 2009.
Industrial conglomerate Tata group has spent $ 133 million in advisory fees related to various buyouts in the last two years, according to data compiled by leading global financial information provider Dealogic. The group has acquired as many as 56 businesses with a total volume of $ 20.6 billion in the last two years, accounting for 82 per cent of their total merger & acquisition volume. Since the year 2002 the Tata group has made as many as 106 acquisitions valued at $ 2mn.
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.
According to global deal tracking firm Dealogic there were as many as eight deals valued over $1 billion that were announced last week adding up to $38.2 billion. There has been an increase in average deal size as well.
Hostile takeover bids worldwide have slumped 66 per cent to $124.4 billion so far in 2009, with US-based Kraft Foods' $19.8 billion offer for British major Cadbury being the second largest.
Emerging nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- have witnessed a 20 per cent decline in loans taken by companies in the year 2008, largely due to the fall in volumes in the last quarter of the year under review, a latest report says. Syndicated loans are large financing facilities granted to a borrower by a group of financial institutions who share the lending risk between them.
In the nine weeks since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, global syndicated loan volume declined 37 per cent as against the nine weeks prior period to Lehman's collapse, deal tracking firm Dealogic said. Similar trend was witnessed on the bond market as well. In the nine weeks after the fall of Lehman the global syndicated loan volume dipped 41 per cent as compared to the nine weeks prior to the US investment bank's collapse, Dealogic added.
Hostile takeover bids in the global mergers and acquisitions space dipped to a four-year low to $10.9 billion in the first quarter of 2009, a report by global deal tracking firm Dealogic has said.
There has been a lull in the primary market scenario across the world, with the global IPO value registering a decline of 95 per cent at $1.6 billion so far this year.
Amid the gloomy economic scenario, the $1.8-billion deal in China and the $1.7-billion RIL-RPL deal brought life to merger and acquisition activities in March in Asia, which were dull in the first two months of 2009.
The downturn in global economy has hit the merger and acquisition transactions as their value so far this year has dropped 35 per cent at $384 billion.
The total volume for investment grade loans, defined as those with high credit quality and low risk profile, has reached $128.3 billion since the beginning of this year -- the highest ever YTD volume -- with SBI Capital Markets emerging as ninth largest book-runner for such deals. With nine deals worth a total value of about $4.1 billion, SBI Cap is the only Indian entity in the top ten bookrunners for such loans in Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan, the data shows.
Private equity mergers and acquisition volumes targeted towards India have grown to $ 2.1 billion through 52 deals in 2008 so far, compared to $ 893 million in the year-ago period, making India the most targeted nation for such agreements in Asia. Buyouts by private equity investors this year account for 15 per cent of the total M&A deals in the country. This has increased 4 per cent from the same period last year. PE investments constitute 8% of the total global M&A volume.
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.
Emerging nations --Brazil, Russia, India and China -- have raised $131.1 billion from the debt markets in the year so far, while India's share stands at just over one-sixth of the kitty. BRIC countries raised the funds through debt markets in a total of 606 deals in 2007 so far, against $120 billion mopped via 736 deals in the year-ago period, according to data complied by global consulting firm Dealogic.
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.
Corporate India has raised over 8 billion dollars through syndicated loans by way of 33 deals in the first half of this year led by Reliance Industries, which alone mopped up a whopping 2.7 billion dollars.
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.
Meanwhile, cross-border M&As touched 23.8 billion dollars in 69 deals in 2007 so far.
The equity capital market volume has jumped up in this year due to the large sized issuance as only 100 deals have been made in the period as against 147 worth $10.4 billion in 2006 in the corresponding period.
India Inc's fund raising spree for expansion and growth plans has pushed up the figure of loans gathered by companies to a record $7.3 billion (about Rs 29,600 crore) so far this year, a latest report says.
While Commerce Minister Kamal Nath has set the target for FDI at $12 billion for 2006-07, outbound investment for January-September 2006 has touched $18.73 billion compared with $8.84 billion in the same period last year.
With more favourable view on Indian economy and business environment under the Narendra Modi government, the risk premium for Indian papers began to climb down.
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