Summary
If you want to understand the themes that drive an industry, simply look at the list of recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This report analyzes the disruptive themes that have driven M&A activity in Q1 2021 across 17 sectors including aerospace, defense, & security, apparel, automotive, banking & payments, construction, consumer, foodservice, healthcare, insurance, medical devices, oil & gas, packaging, pharma, power, retail, technology, media & telecoms, travel & tourism.
Key Highlights
Scope
Reasons to Buy
If you want to understand the themes that drive an industry, simply look at the list of recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This report analyzes the disruptive themes that have driven M&A activity in Q1 2021 across 17 sectors including aerospace, defense, & security, apparel, automotive, banking & payments, construction, consumer, foodservice, healthcare, insurance, medical devices, oil & gas, packaging, pharma, power, retail, technology, media & telecoms, travel & tourism.
Key Highlights
- Despite the global pandemic, global M&A deals reached a total value of $2,838bn in 2020, just down by 6% as compared to 2019. The total number of deals in 2020 reached 32,285, with most activity in the second half of the year.
- The M&A market recovered strongly in Q3 and Q4 2020. Q4 2020 saw the highest activity for the past five years, with 9,371 deals and total deal value of $1,056bn.
- Q1 2021 saw 8,823 M&A deals with a combined transaction value of $878bn, which is 48% up on Q1 2020 by deal value.
Scope
- This report provides an overview of merger and acquisition activity globally in Q1 2021 across 17 sectors including aerospace, defense, & security, apparel, automotive, banking & payments, construction, consumer, foodservice, healthcare, insurance, medical devices, oil & gas, packaging, pharma, power, retail, technology, media & telecoms, travel & tourism.
- It identifies the themes driving most notable deals announced in Q1 2021 across all 17 sectors and provides the predictions around these themes.
- It also assesses the impact of COVID-19 on the M&A market.
Reasons to Buy
- Companies who invest in the right themes become success stories; those who miss the big themes end up as failures. If you want to understand the themes that drive an industry, simply look at the list of recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
- In this report we have listed down the most notable deals across 17 sectors to make it easy for our clients to get a view of themes disrupting these sectors and prepare for the future.
Table of Contents
Review of global M&A market - Q1 2021- Themes driving global M&A market - Q1 2021
- Thematic M&A drivers by sector
- Aerospace, Defense & Security
- Apparel
- Automotive
- Banking & Payments
- Construction
- Consumer
- Foodservice
- Healthcare
- Insurance
- Medical
- Oil & Gas
- Packaging
- Pharma
- Power
- Retail
- Technology, Media & Telecoms
- Travel & Tourism
- Appendices
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Rogers Communications
- OptumInsight
- ICON
- ironSource
- Apollo Global Management
- National Grid
- Hitachi
- American Tower
- Hapvida Health System
- Teledyne
- TPG Capital
- M&T Bank
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals
- Synnex
- Energy Transfer
- Peraton
- II-VI
- Davidson Kempner
- Okta
- Kansas City Southern
- Shaw Communications
- Change Healthcare
- PRA Health Sciences
- Thoma Bravo Advantage
- Athene
- Western Power Distribution
- GlobalLogic
- Telefonica
- Notre Dame Intermedica
- FLIR Systems
- AT&T
- People's United Financial
- GW Pharmaceuticals
- Tech Data
- Enable Midstream
- Perspecta
- Coherent
- Bradford & Bingley
- Auth0
- Amazon
- Primark
- Zalando
- Chanel
- Citibank
- BBVA
- HSBC
- Bank of America
- DBS
- USAA
- Revolut
- Ant Financial
- Alibaba
- Visa
- Mastercard
- Mercado Libre
- Shopify
- Klarna
- Square
- Walmart Health
- Kaiser Permanente
- Anthem
- Fresenius
- Walgreens
- Smith & Nephew
- Cisco
- Siemens Healthineers
- HCA
- Allscripts
- DaVita
- Synapse Group
- IBM Watson Health
- Best Buy
- 3M
