This guest post is by Jaya Gupta, Head of India
Desk, Corporate at Allen & Overy LLP
In 2019, global M&A activity switched down a gear although
it was still the third-strongest year in a decade in terms of value
and transaction volume.
With macroeconomic issues such as continuing trade wars between
the US and China, tensions in the Middle East and, to some extent,
Brexit, impacting cross-border activities, many investors resorted
to strategic domestic megadeals.
At Allen & Overy, we regularly identify the trends that we
are seeing on our deals. Over the past eight years, for example, we
have analysed more than 1,250 private M&A deals that we have
acted on globally to discern trends relating to deal dynamics,
execution risks and share purchase agreement terms. Some of the
trends that we saw in 2019 are highlighted in this article.
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