Global M&A activity smashes all-time records to top USD 5 Trillion, Israel records highest deal total in a decade
Global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity shattered all-time records in 2021, comfortably erasing the high-water mark that was set nearly 15 years ago, as an abundance of capital and sky-high valuations fueled frenetic levels of dealmaking, according to an analysis of Dealogic data.
Technology and healthcare, which typically account for the biggest share of the M&A market, led the way again in 2021, driven partly by pent-up demand from last year when the pace of M&A activity fell to a three-year-low due to the global financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more here in this recent article in Jerusalem Post.
Meanwhile, there was a 70% jump in overall M&A deal value in Israel in 2021, compared with 2020, according to the PwC Israel 2021 M&A Report, also just released.
While average deal value dropped in 2021 to USD 126 million, which represents an 18% annual decline, the number of deals that closed this year rose to 238, the highest total in the past decade and almost double the number of deals in 2020. Read more here.
