Oaklins M&A Market Report 2021
A detailed analysis of the M&A market with German counterparts
With almost 400 closed deals in 2021 worldwide it has been a record year for Oaklins International with its offices in 45 countries around the globe. Strategic and financial investors got used to a world with Corona despite the fact of extremely rising incidences, Oaklins Germany has analysed the M&A market for you with German participation and provides an outlook for 2022.
Compared to the previous year 2020, transaction activity with German participation in 2021 has increased by incredible 56% . With over 3,000 deals, we are witnessing the most successful M&A year since the beginning of our survey 17 years ago. Only during the so-called Treuhand Period of privatisation of Eastern German state owned company in the early 1990s more deals were ever registered with German participation. With over 850 deals in the tech sector, it underlines its outstanding importance in the transformation of our daily environment, which is characterized by digitalization, automatisation and working from home office. At the same time, private equity reached a record share of 38% of deal volume in 2021 - also a consequence of low interest rates.
Find out more about the top 30 deals, the hottest sectors, the top countries where German companies have completed transactions, how private equity has been able to expand its share of M&A so significantly and our outlook for 2022 in our M&A Market Report 2021.
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