{"id":438687,"date":"2022-02-02T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=438687"},"modified":"2022-02-02T17:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T22:04:24","slug":"global-ma-stayed-hot-to-start-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/research-and-markets\/global-ma-stayed-hot-to-start-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Global M&amp;A stayed hot to start 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming off a record year, global merger and acquisition activity got off to a strong start once again in January, Refinitiv reports.<\/p>\n<p>Global M&amp;A activity came in at US$364 billion in January, which was up 28% from the same month last year, and is the third best January on record.<\/p>\n<p>Refinitiv said that January 2022 ranked just behind January 2018 (US$369.1 billion), but well below January 2000 (US$516.2 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Deal activity surged in Europe, with US$128.0 billion worth of deals announced, up 155% from January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, deals involving a U.S. target were up 11% from last year to US$168.1 billion, whereas activity was essentially flat in Asia at US$51.0 billion, Refinitiv reported.<\/p>\n<p>The tech sector continued to lead in deal volume, with US$124.9 billion worth of transactions in January, up 85% from the same month last year. This was the strongest January on record for the tech sector, the firm noted.<\/p>\n<p>Refinitiv also reported that private equity-backed M&amp;A transactions totalled US$42.2 billion in January, up by 15% from the same month last year, but down by 55% from December 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal activity in January third highest on record, Refinitiv reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147314,"featured_media":393183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2313,2312],"tags":[2347],"yst_prominent_words":[11963,102301,40339,19876,17676,17445,13437,13300,13291,12999,2142,11416,9281,8584,6733,4153],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438713,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438687\/revisions\/438713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438687"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=438687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}