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Global M&A Industry Trends The M&A show must go on. Save the date. After high hopes in January of an upswing in dealmaking activity, a thick fog of uncertainty descended on M&A markets, clouding M&A prospects and causing a precipitous decline in deals during the first half of 2024. What
From 1985 to the first quarter of 2024, a total of 76,174 deals were announced with a value of almost
The Metals and Mining sector has seen constant and significant M&A activity in the past decades, influenced by market dynamics,
By Abongeh A. Tunyi, Collins G. Ntim Abstract This study explores firm- and country-specific antecedents of African M&As. We use one of the
by KPMG
This is an era of unprecedented change for the insurance sector. New technologies, new customer expectations, new regulations and new competitive pressures are rapidly disrupting the traditional insurance business model. In this environment, insurance organizations have no choice but to adapt. The good news is that the vast majority of insurance executives intuitively know they need to be more innovative. […] Read more
by Willis Towers Watson
The number of M&A deals completed in the first quarter of 2016 was the lowest for two years according to Willis Towers Watson’s Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor (QDPM). The research, run in partnership with Cass Business School, shows that despite the fall in completed deals over $100m this quarter (216) compared to 233 in Q1 2015 (and 307 in Q4 2015), financial outperformance for companies completing M&A deals remains positive at 5.3 percentage points (pp) above the MSCI World Index. […] Read more
Quarterly Deal Performance Monitor: Q1 2016 By Steve Allan – Willis Towers Watson First-quarter 2016 M&A remains strong, but sees lower volumes and
by KPMG
The latest deals data shows that the volume of developed market investments into emerging markets (D2E) hit a 10-year low over the second half of 2015, but emerging market deals with one another showed strong growth over the same period. Between July and December 2015, the number of D2E deals fell by 3 percent to 541, the lowest number in 10 years. The yearly total is also the lowest in 10 years, at 1101 D2E deals, 9 percent down on 2014. […] Read more
By KPMG The Cross-Border Deals Tracker (Tracker), formerly the High Growth Markets International Deals Tracker, looks at deal flows between 15
Meet Dr. Alexander Herzfeldt, esteemed faculty member at the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances (IMAA) and Associate Partner at Siemens Advanta Consulting. Alex’s work is at the intersection of
Meet the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances’ (IMAA) resident M&A Law expert, Dr. Hermann Ali Hinderer, LL.M. With his rich background in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Private Equity (PE),
Meet our faculty member at IMAA, Mr. David Olsson. With 17 years of experience in finance and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), he currently serves as the Head of M&A at
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