{"id":42864,"date":"2014-07-02T06:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T10:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42864"},"modified":"2014-07-02T07:29:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T11:29:03","slug":"h1-2014-global-ma-trend-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2014\/h1-2014-global-ma-trend-report.html","title":{"rendered":"H1 2014 Global M&A Trend Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hedgefund<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) – H1 2014 (US$ 694.6bn) has been the most active half year for US M&A since H1 2007, up 98.3% from H1 2013 (US$ 350.2bn) and a 30% increase from H2 2013 (US$534.3bn), according to a new\u00a0report from MergerNarket<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The purchase of Time Warner Cable by Comcast Corporation for US$ 68.5bn and the acquisition of DIRECTV by AT&T for US$ 65.5bn were the two top deals in the US and in the global Telecommunications sector in H1 2014.<\/p>\n

A few key US findings include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 Q2 2014 was valued at US$ 405.2bn, more than double (up 135.6%) Q2 2013\u2019s value (US$ 172bn), making Q2 2014 the highest valued quarter since Q2 2007<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Compared to all the other regions, the US experienced the largest increase in M&A from last year; a 44.2% share of the global market by deal value during H1 2014 was up from 34.8% in H1 2013<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Private equity buyout value during H1 2014 (US$ 80.1bn) reached the second most active half year post-crisis, despite no mega-valued buyouts. H1 2013 surpassed current levels only as a result of two mega-buyouts worth US$ 47.5bn,<\/p>\n

Having already seen four mega-deals this year in the US, Pharma, Medical & Bio- tech activity is only strengthening. Its market share by deal value grew from 14.4%
\nin H1 2013 (US$ 50.3bn) to 22.6% in H1 2014 (US$ 157bn)\u00a0Foreign acquirers made up a large portion of US-targeted M&A in the Pharma, Medical & Biotech sector with US$ 60.4bn-worth of deals and a 38.5% share of its total deal value. The largest such deal was the hostile offer made by Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceutical International for Allergan.<\/p>\n

The average amount paid for a US-based Pharma, Medical & Biotech company
\nshared the joint highest value at US$ 1.2bn, matching the last boom in the sector
\nduring 2009.<\/p>\n

Alex Akesson<\/span>
Editor for\u00a0<\/span>HedgeCo.net<\/a>
alex@hedgeco.net<\/a>
HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<\/span>hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<\/span>HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<\/span>Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – H1 2014 (US$ 694.6bn) has been the most active half year for US M&A since H1 2007, up 98.3% from H1 2013 (US$ 350.2bn) and a 30% increase from H2 2013 (US$534.3bn), according to a new\u00a0report […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16042,16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-performance-2","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42869,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42864\/revisions\/42869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}