Americas M&A Reports

M&A in Latin America & the Caribbean region continued to improve in Q4, boasting the highest quarterly numbers in terms of both deal volume and value in 2020 -  there were 431 transactions for a total sum of USD 18.4bn. Throughout the ...

The count of mergers and acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean dipped 23% y/y in the first nine months of 2020 to 980 transactions as Covid-19 loomed. The third quarter was slightly better for M&A and deals volumes and values rebounded ...

The volume of mergers and acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean plunged by 34% y/y in the first half of 2020 to 575 transactions, as the spread of Covid-19 took toll on market activity. Unlike Q1, in the second quarter all major economies ...

The number of mergers and acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean plunged by 27% in the first three months of 2020 to 321 transactions, as global markets were rattled by uncertainty related to the spread of Covid-19. With the exception ...

Forecasts for Latin America’s M&A market in 2019 were modest and with the year behind us, it is time for conclusions. EMIS figures show that activity in the region indeed remained flat, inching down by just one deal to 1,649 transactions. ...

M&A activity in Latin America saw 379 deals in Q3, a significant decline compared to the previous quarter. Y/y however numbers were slightly up, supported by the stronger performance from H1 - deals grew by 3.3% to 1,252 while their aggregate ...

M&A activity in Latin America kept growing with further 429 deals in Q2, reaching a total of 861 for the first half of 2019. This marks a 8.3% growth y/y and also the strongest first half of the year since 2014. The U.S. comfortably took the ...

M&A in Latin America had a good start of the year with 415 transactions for the period January-March. It is in fact the best beginning of the year since 2014, also marking a 4.3% increase compared to Q1 2018. In terms of foreign-led M&A, the ...

 In Q4, M&A returned to their usual peak after experiencing some dips around the middle of the year. The March deal for Fibria Celulose in Brazil (2018’s the largest transaction in the region) was completed in early 2019 and the ...

M&A activity picked up in the third quarter of the year, raising the overall number of deals in Latin America & the Caribbean for the whole nine-month period by 4% y/y. However, much smaller transactions were announced in Q3 after the ...