Selected Public M&A Deal Points: A Cross-Border Comparison

The Market Trends Subcommittee of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee (the ABA Subcommittee) of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association released in late December 2014 its latest edition of the Strategic Buyer/Public Target M&A Deal Points Study (the US Study) which analyses acquisitions of US publicly-traded targets announced in 2013. This article highlights some of the findings reported by the US Study and compares them to those reported by the most recent Canadian Public Target M&A Deal Points Study prepared by the ABA Subcommittee which analyses acquisitions of Canadian publicly-traded targets announced in 2011 and 2012 (the Canadian Study).

The Study Sample and Type of Consideration