M&A-PE Deals

By the end of August 2023, about 21,500 M&A deals had been announced, with a total value of $1.18 trillion. This represents a 14 per cent decrease in the number of deals

In Private-Equity (PE)-backed M&A activity, India crossed China for the first time since 2008 accounting for 28 per cent of the market share as compared to China's 24 per cent

Value of deals down 52% y-o-y as investors turn cautious, says study by Grant Thornton Bharat

India Inc witnessed a 3 per cent rise in deal activity to USD 13.2 billion across 181 transactions in July, a report said on Tuesday. Going by the number of deals, the volumes showed a 66 per cent increase to 181 transactions, thus indicating a dip in average ticket sizes, the data by the consultancy firm Grant Thornton Bharat said. When compared to the preceding June, the deal volumes were 6 per cent higher, while the deal values were 33 per cent up because of a higher number of big-ticket transactions, it added. This surge in deal activity was primarily due to companies continuing to borrow economically and spending their cash reserves on transformative deals to reposition themselves for the post-COVID-19 world, its partner Shanthi Vijetha said. Vijetha said the firm hopes for the deal trend will remain positive in the coming months too. According to the report, the USD 13.2 billion of investments is the highest ever for any month since 2005. Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) ...

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The funding will be used by Tessolve, a Hero Electronix venture, to drive further growth through acquisitions and organic investments

A slew of private equity transactions in 2020 has pushed up the money inflows through this route by 108 per cent to $33.8 billion, according to an industry report

Thanks to investments in Jio, India accounts for more than 12 per cent of announced deals in the Asia Pacific region so far this year, the highest ratio since at least 1998.

According to the survey report, though the market is sitting on sufficient un-invested capital, or 'dry powder,' good investment opportunities are seen as difficult to find in the current environment

Jio Platforms has now announced a combined investment of Rs 104,326.95 crore in 10 deals since April 22

This is Jio's third major announcement in three weeks after it previously sold stakes to Facebook and Silver Lake

Worldwide merger activity so far this year is down 33% from a year ago and at $762.6 billion is the lowest year-to-date amount for dealmaking since 2013, the data showed

The drop was attributed to the Vodafone-Idea merger, valued at $23 billion in the first quarter of 2017