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See how Mergermarket Deal Drivers HY 2020 3 Asia Pacific Contents Contents The comprehensive Foreword 04 Energy, Mining, Oil & Gas 29 Asia-Pacific Heat Chart 05 Consumer 35 review of mergers and All Sectors 06 Technology, Media & Telecom 41 acquisitions in the Financial Services 17 Life Sciences & Healthcare 47 Asia Pacific region Industrials, Manufacturing & Engineering 23 About Datasite 54 throughout the first half of 2020. mergermarket.com Mergermarket Deal Drivers HY 2020 4 Asia Pacific Foreword Foreword Welcome to the half-year 2020 edition of Deal to Bain & Co—as firms put new activity and Among the other hard-hit sectors was the Drivers APAC, published by Mergermarket in exits on hold to see how the response to energy, mining, oil & gas sector, which recorded association with Datasite. This report provides the pandemic developed. H1 2020 buyout a 28% annual drop in deal value, which came an overview of deal activity in the APAC region value and volume fell to US$124.4bn and 886 to US$21.5bn in H1 2020. The consumer sector, over the first six months of 2020 and looks deals respectively, from H1 2019’s totals of which has been hit hard by lockdown measures Desmond Chua into how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected US$266.1bn and 1,227 deals—declines of 53% and drops in discretionary spending, saw deal Head of Region, APAC merger and acquisition activity during the year by value and 28% by volume. Exit activity fell value fall 20% from year-to-year, registering Datasite as well as how the region is positioned going even further: value dropped 54% year-on- US$22.2bn in deal value in the first six months into the second half of 2020. year to US$74.4bn, while volume fell 34% to of 2020. 401 exits, from US$162.6bn and 607 exits. APAC was the first region that had to contend After a tough first half, dealmakers will be hoping with the coronavirus outbreak and the impact East Asia—which includes the dominant that activity stages a recovery in H2. Stock of lockdown measures on the economy and on economic hubs of the Greater China region markets have certainly rebounded in Q2 and the M&A activity. Despite a rebound following the and South Korea—delivered the bulk of the IMF expects that the region’s key economies, lifting of restrictions, the Asia Dow stock market region’s deal value and volume, with 967 deals including China and South Korea, will be index is still in the red for the year thus far, and valued at US$141.5bn. South Asia was the next well-placed to navigate the lifting of lockdowns the IMF is forecasting that Asia’s economy will biggest region by deal value with US$46.7bn and any second surges of the coronavirus. contract by 1.6% in 2020. from 191 deals, followed by Southeast Asia with There are, however, still challenges facing the US$29bn worth of value from 154 transactions. Deal activity has inevitably slowed against region. Growing tensions between China and this uncertain and volatile macro-economic With respect to sectors, the region’s thriving the West over issues including global trade, backdrop, yet the drop in both value and technology, media & telecom (TMT) industry politics and the provision of 5G technology by volume in the region was far less steep than was the largest contributor to deal value Chinese technology group Huawei could weigh the global figures. by some distance with US$59.2bn worth on activity, as could tighter rules on foreign of transactions, nearly double the size of M&A coming into force around the world. In the APAC region, total deal value for H1 2020 the next largest sector by value, industrials, has dropped 12% compared to the same period M&A in the APAC region is positioned to manufacturing & engineering (IME), with the year before, to US$255.1bn, while volume fell rally through the rest of 2020 and 2021— deals worth US$35.3bn. Financial services 13% to 1,744 deals. In contrast, global M&A value nonetheless, it could be a bumpy recovery. was the third biggest sector by value with collapsed by 53% year-on-year and volume fell transactions to the value of US$33.1bn. 32% over the same period. The IME sector, despite being the second Private equity, meanwhile, saw bigger declines largest sector by total value, was nevertheless in activity—despite sitting on a record among the most impacted sectors. Deal value US$388bn worth of dry powder, according fell 54% from H1 2019’s total of US$77.3bn. mergermarket.com Mergermarket Deal Drivers HY 2020 5 Asia Pacific Heat Chart Asia-Pacific Heat Chart Looking ahead to the next six months of APAC dealmaking, Heat Chart based on potential companies for sale the industrials, manufacturing & engineering (IME) sector and the technology, media, telecom (TMT) sector can be Sector East Asia South East Asia Australasia South Asia Japan Central Asia Total expected to see the greatest level of activity, according to Industrials, Manufacturing & Engineering 416 39 38 25 37 1 556 Mergermarket’s Heat Chart, which tracks “companies for Technology, Media & Telecom 265 76 83 55 43 522 sale” stories over the past six months. Consumer 166 51 65 38 22 2 344 There were 556 stories about IME firms coming to market Business Services 146 46 33 23 28 276 on Mergermarket’s intelligence tool during this period, the majority of which — 416 — were in the East Asia region. Financial Services 96 57 36 31 7 1 228 The TMT sector, which was the dominant one in the last Life Sciences & Healthcare 122 39 37 18 10 226 full-year edition of Deal Drivers: APAC, has come in second Energy, Mining, Oil & Gas 93 52 51 18 2 4 220 place in this edition, with 522 stories of companies for sale Construction 65 32 9 3 7 116 across APAC. Just over half of these were in the East Asia Leisure 58 22 14 13 6 113 region, although Australasia and Southeast Asia could also provide bright spots of deal activity for the sector. Real Estate 64 22 8 3 7 104 Transportation 48 28 14 6 3 99 Across all sectors, East Asia, which includes the Greater China region and South Korea, looks set to be the dominant Agriculture 21 11 4 1 1 38 M&A market in APAC by volume — with 1,567 “companies for Other 4 6 2 1 13 sale” stories published about the region over H1, over half of Government 1 4 1 1 7 the total such stories published in the region. Defense 2 2 Total 1,567 485 395 236 173 8 2,864 Hot Warm Cold 200 80 20 160 60 10 120 40 1 Note: The Intelligence Heat Charts are based on ‘companies for sale’ tracked by Mergermarket in the respective regions between 01/01/2020 and 30/06/2020. Opportunities are captured according to the dominant geography and sector of the potential target company. mergermarket.com Mergermarket Deal Drivers HY 2020 6 Asia Pacific All Sectors Part of the Acuris report on global M&A activity All Sectors mergermarket.com Mergermarket Deal Drivers HY 2020 7 Asia Pacific All Sectors All Sectors Overview M&A around the world has witnessed a sizable The TMT sector, however, has been the standout Consumer deal value slid from US$27.7bn impact due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the performer this year, with deal value actually in H1 2019 to US$22.2bn in H1 2020, even APAC region is no exception. increasing 40% from the US$42.1bn recorded though H1 2020 deal value totals received over H1 2019. Six of the region’s 20 largest a huge boost from grocer Tesco’s exit of Total M&A value in the first six months of deals were in the TMT sector, which delivered its Thai business in a US$10.6bn sale to 2020 came to US$255.1bn, compared to some sizable transactions, such as Facebook’s Charoen Pokphand Foods. The US$1.9bn US$290.6bn in H1 2019 and US$371.9bn in H2 US$5.7bn investment for a 9.99% minority stake take-private of Hong Kong’s global consumer 2019—a decline of 12% and 31%, respectively. in India’s Jio Platforms, a social networking goods logistics group Li & Fung was the In terms of deal volume, there were 1,744 platform owned by telecoms magnate Mukesh only other APAC consumer deal to break the transactions in H1, down 13% from 2,009 Ambani. Another standout TMT deal was the US$1bn threshold during H1 2020. transactions in H1 2019 and 28% below the US$7.6bn private equity-led take-private of 2,408 deals struck in H2 2019. Deal volume 58.com, a Chinese online classifieds business. and value figures for Q2 this year, meanwhile, The IME sector was the next largest sector represent the weakest quarterly totals since by value in the region, despite total value Q1 2014. more than halving from H1 2019’s total of The technology, media & telecom (TMT), US$77.3bn. This was almost certainly due to industrials, manufacturing & engineering (IME) a slump in deal activity at the top end of the and financial services sectors proved the market, as the drop in deal volumes for the most resilient through COVID-19 from an M&A sector was far less precipitous, falling only perspective, emerging as the three largest 19% to 337 deals.