Trends For M&A Transactions In IT In 2023

2022 has set certain trends in the structure of M&A transactions in the IT industry, and 2023 continues to follow them. Lawyers of the M&A in IT practice of REVERA law group have analyzed more than 30 M&A transactions made in the IT industry in 2022 and inferred several patterns that, in their opinion, will form the trends in IT M&A transactions this year.

Target is a group of companies

The transactions of 2022 showed that, more and more often, a target is not a single legal entity but a group of interconnected companies located in different jurisdictions and performing various functions within a single business. Usually, there may be:
(a) R&D centre
(b) Sales offices
(c) A company holding intellectual property rights