Beyond the Field: Exploring the Business of Sports in M&A

Sports Industry M&A Activities report blog cover

Explore the transformative journey that mergers and acquisitions activity is bringing to the sports industry. The Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances (IMAA) dataset on the M&A activities of the sports industry meticulously showcases aggregate data on number of deals and value of deals from 1985 to 2023. The dataset comprehensively covers various segments of … Read more

IMAA M&A Review: Reflections on Resetting the Bar in M&A

Executive Summary IMAA’s 2023 mergers and acquisitions review highlights a transformative period for the global M&A market, which in 2023 faced a substantial downturn, witnessing a 25% decline in deal volumes and a 31% decrease in deal values compared to the previous year. This decline was influenced by various factors, including the impact of rising … Read more

A Better Way To M&A: Zeroing In On Telecom Value

Exhibit 1 EMEA telecom M&A activity

by McKinsey & Company
With organic growth opportunities narrowing, telecom players need a better way to screen potential M&A targets. A data-rich, heat map–based approach can help. The recent surge in telecom M&A activity raises an important question: which acquisitions will create the most value for your company? Always important, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have become essential among expansion-minded telecom players in Europe as organic growth opportunities begin to evaporate. […] Read more

iDeal – Defining M&A Analytics

By Charles Knight, Iain Macmillan – Deloitte An M&A analytics solution that provides deeper, more meaningful insights from data to deliver real-time answers and analyses throughout the M&A lifecycle. The Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) lifecycle is awash in data. It starts long before the diligence phase and picks up steam when companies share, solicit, and parse information for go … Read more

Merging Alliances: Ignore at Your Own Risk

By Douglas Tuttle – Deloitte With U.S. companies pursuing alliances, joint ventures, and/or partnerships in record numbers, most merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions are bound to involve dozens if not hundreds of strategic business-tobusiness relationships (which we’ll call “alliances” for short). Yet few merging companies devote as much time and effort to integrating alliances as they do to … Read more

Banking On Consolidation: To Gain The Scale Needed To Compete, Mid-Tier Firms Need To Join Forces

By Doug Stotz, Arjun Saxena and Sanchit Tiwari – PricewaterhouseCoopers The U.S. banking industry has largely sat out the impressive surge in M&A activity of the last few years. Total deal volume hit a record US$2.3 trillion in 2015 — up 64 percent over 2014. But banks accounted for just 3 percent of the total value, despite the fact that they account … Read more

Global Capital Confidence Barometer – Does Seizing Competitive Advantage Mean Deals Take Center Stage?

Mergers, acquisitions and alliances in the spotlight as companies seek innovation to redefine their strategy By Ernst & Young Key findings M&A outlook The need to respond to challenges while navigating a complex and fast-changing environment makes dealmaking an imperative, not an option. Executives are looking at more targets, and deals will tend to be smaller. … Read more

Global Transportation And Logistics M&A Deals Insights Q3 2016

Figure 1 Value and volume by numbers-Transportation and Logistics

by PricewaterhouseCoopers
Global transportation and logistics M&A activity remained stable in 2016 with 50+ deals in each quarter, though Q3 2016 was slightly less active. With 50 deals, the quarter saw a decline of 11% in deal volume compared to both Q2 2016 and Q3 2015. It appears general uncertainties related to the US presidential elections, the long-term impact of Brexit, and China’s economic growth paired with reduced forecasts of international trade activity may have impacted recent M&A activity. […] Read more

Global Transportation And Logistics M&A Deals Insights Q3 2016

By Darach Chapman, Jonathan Kletzel and Julian Smith– PricewaterhouseCoopers Executive summary Global transportation and logistics M&A activity remained stable in 2016 with 50+ deals in each quarter, though Q3 2016 was slightly less active. With 50 deals, the quarter saw a decline of 11% in deal volume compared to both Q2 2016 and Q3 2015. It appears general uncertainties related … Read more

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