Corporate and M&A

Contents

• Merger and Acquisition Outlook
• Industry Dynamics
• Biggest M&A of 2022
  
  • Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
  • Broadcom acquisition of VMWare
  • AMD acquisition of Xilinx
  • Elon Musk’s Acquisition of Twitter
  • Oracle’s acquisition of Cerner
  • Prologis merger with Duke Realty
• Recent M&A Deals of 2023
  
  • Leap Therapeutics acquisition of Flame Biosciences
  • Suzuki Motor Corp., Japan Industrial Partners Inc., and ROHM Co. Ltd. acquisition of Toshiba Corporation
  • Krogers acquisition of Albertsons
  • BHP Billiton’s acquisition of OZ Minerals
  • United Health acquisition of LHC Group
  • Amazon’s acquisition of One Medical
  • Thoma Bravo acquisition of Coupa Software
• References for our observation

M&A Outlook

The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in 2022 had a strong start with high deal activity, including several large deals valued over $60 billion. M&A activity slowed considerably after the first half of 2022 due to various factors that eroded business and consumer confidence and created reluctance to engage in major transactions. These factors include disruptions in financing markets, a highly volatile stock market, falling share prices, concerns about inflation, rapidly increasing interest rates, the war in Europe, supply chain disruptions, and the looming possibility of a global recession.

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