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ARTICLE · 27 JULY 2023

Corporate Tax 2023

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Despite the ongoing financial and political difficulties in 2022, the number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals reached the highest level in the last decade.

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Sandra Schaffner
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Kerim Tbaishat
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Overview of corporate tax work over the last year

Types of corporate tax work

M&A

Despite the ongoing financial and political difficulties in 2022, the number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals reached the highest level in the last decade. In 2021, there were 604 M&A deals involving Swiss companies with a volume of USD 170bn. In 2022, the number of deals increased to 647 with a total volume of USD 138bn, marking an increase of 7.12% in the number of transactions with Swiss participation.1 Although the total deal value decreased by USD 31.5bn (-18.5%), the number of deals rose.2

Nearly half of all transactions were in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT), Industrial Markets, and Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences sectors, with the most transactions taking place in the TMT sector, totalling 124 deals with a deal volume of more than USD 14.5bn. The Industrial Markets sector had 89 deals with a volume of USD 6.5bn, while the Pharmaceuticals & Life

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