M&A activity within the renewable energy industry is on a definite upward trend and Europe is proving to be the epicenter for the activity, according to reports. The Thomson Reuters’ Deals Insight report from earlier this year showed that the first quarter of 2011 already enjoyed an increase in M&A activity in the sector, with [...]
Cross-border M&A activity has increased over the past decade and the economic crises have done little to disrupt the trend. Businesses embarking upon a cross-border merger or acquisition will still face significant challenges, but there are steps buyers and sellers can take to maximize success. Cross-border deals were once more common between European and US [...]
Although global M&A activity was up in the first half of 2011, news that a decline of 17.5 per cent was recorded between the first quarter of the year and the second quarter has caused some concern among dealmakers. The new figures from the latest mergermarket report, published last week, showed that a total of [...]
In the first half of 2011 Brazil saw 142 M&A deals worth US$41bn representing a 15% increase in volume and 24% increase in value over the previous year. According to the newly released Brazilian M&A Outlook survey published by mergermarket and Merrill DataSite®, this trend is expected to continue. In the second quarter of 2011, [...]
Global Financial Consultants Forecast an Increase in Transaction Activity in Brazil in the Coming Year NEW YORK – JUNE 17, 2011 — Almost 85 percent of U.S. business executives expect the level of inflation in Brazil to increase in the coming year, according to a new survey of over 500 global financial consultants conducted online [...]
How Better Investor Information Translates into Faster Fundraising By Paul Hartzell – Senior Vice President, Merrill DataSite® Private equity fundraising is finally on the up. But there’s still a huge gap between funds that are closing fast and those that are on the market for years. Paul Hartzell, senior vice president of Merrill DataSite, explains [...]
The May issue of the M&A Insider Report sponsored by Merrill DataSite® and developed by mergermarket is based on North American, European, Asia Pacific, Middle Eastern & African geographic breakdown of quarterly M&A deal trends and deal sizes. This report shows that 2011 is seeing corporates and buyout groups expand more aggressively into wind, hydro [...]
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 18, 2011 — Nearly 30 percent of business executives report that the recent crises in Japan and the turmoil in the Middle East have caused them to somewhat or greatly reduce their business overall. (or in these regions? or where?), according to a new worldwide survey of business executives. The [...]
Watch Tim Draper, founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, talk about emerging markets seeking VCs http://www.datasite.com/tim-draper-ukraine-vietnam-venture-capital.htm Emerging-market countries, such as Ukraine and Vietnam, are aggressively recruiting venture capitalists, reports Tim Draper, founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, who recently held meetings with Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine, and Nguyen Sinh Hung, deputy prime minister of Vietnam. [...]
Watch Linda Rottenberg, co-founder of Endeavor Global Inc. talk about the emerging markets during the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association: http://www.datasite.com/videos-and-podcasts.htm#Linda Linda, the co-founder of Endeavor Global Inc., an organization that seeks to mentor emerging-market entrepreneurs and assist them in growing their businesses, says that we can now forget B2B and C2C, [...]