M&A Update Technology Sector Q2 2022

M&A market developments and valuation environment in the second quarter

High market volume despite rising inflation rates, a continuing conflict and global supply shortages

The last few months have been challenging in many ways. The continuing Ukraine conflict, rising inflation rates and supply shortages influence markets globally. However, the European and German Tech M&A activity Q2 2022 shows a positive development and increase of transactions in Germany to a total of 167 closed transactions. Strategic investors express high interest in software solutions and in acquiring additional know-how. Financial investors make up more than 20% of the total number of transactions in Q2, indicating high interest in asset-light business models and highly scalable Tech companies. Our report analyses the current valuation development and addresses the following topics:

The development of the European M&A activity as well as background information on selected transactions

The development of the current valuation level in Europe

The development of various sub-segments in the Tech stock market

Additionally, we present one of our latest TMT deals: the sale of IT-Seal GmbH, a provider of cybersecurity awareness training software, to Hornetsecurity, a market leading cloud-security software solution provider.

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