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Speciality Materials - M&A Review and Valuation

Speciality Materials - M&A Review and Valuation

04 Oct 2018

Increasing M&A activity by trade acquirers and financial sponsors has created a very favourable environment for sellers across the speciality materials sector. Additionally, carbon composite M&A continues to grow with 5 strong quarters in 2017 and 2018, due to some highly significant industry deals, robust growth rates, substantial value propositions and sustainable margins remained attractive incentives for strategic buyers and financial investors.

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2018 Mid Year M&A Review

2018 Mid Year M&A Review

19 Jul 2018

Technology M&A deal volumes in the UK were up 12% in the first half as a wave of overseas acquirers continues to drive the market. The bull market shows no sign of slowing down. Some of the exit valuations have been spectacular. It's clearly a great time to own a technology company.

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2017 Global Technology M&A Review

2017 Global Technology M&A Review

12 Jan 2018

2017 was another excellent year for Technology companies. While the number of M&A deals fell 8% globally, the valuations remained at near record levels and in UK we saw a record number of overseas acquirers, with 41% of deals being cross border. Almost all the drivers that made 2017 another active year in M&A remain in place and so we look forward to the Chinese Year of The Dog with confidence.

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2017 Mid Year Global M&A Review

2017 Mid Year Global M&A Review

25 Jul 2017

The number of Technology M&A deals is down so far this year, although comparison is with a very strong 2016. A key trend in the UK was the increase in cross border deals to 43% of the total in the first half of this year, up from 35% in the same period last year, despite sterling rallying. Valuations remain at record levels as investors acquired high growth/high price assets in AI, IoT and cloud software.

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2016 Global Technology M&A Review

2016 Global Technology M&A Review

20 Jan 2017

The Technology sector continues to outperform as investors continue to search for growth in a low growth world. 2015 was the sixth consecutive year in which the number of Technology M&A deals has increased and the year of the largest ever Technology deal.

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2016 Mid Year Global M&A Review

2016 Mid Year Global M&A Review

15 Aug 2016

With post Brexit impact looming there is concern that UK confidence could be dented. Far from it, since Brexit sterling has fallen but equity markets have soared to near record levels. UK Technology M&A activity also remains robust with a wave of deals closing. In fact, we have seen the biggest ever tech deal in Europe when SoftBank (Japan) acquired ARM for £24.3bn.

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2015 ICON Technology M&A Review

2015 ICON Technology M&A Review

28 Jan 2016

Microsoft was the biggest acquirer with 19 deals in 2015. Microsoft and IBM each ramped up their acquisition machines to kick start growth.

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2015 ICON Technology Mid Year M&A Review

2015 ICON Technology Mid Year M&A Review

23 Jul 2015

The valuation of Global Technology M&A Deals are in record territory and the number of deals have increased in 2015.  Hot sectors include:  payments, big data and IoT.

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