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FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS & REPORTING | MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS FOR REGULATED INDUSTRY | CUSTOMER CONTENT & COLLABORATION SOLUTIONS Mergermarket Deal Drivers EMEA Contents 3 Contents Foreword 04 Telecoms, Media & Technology 41 EMEA Heat Chart 05 Transportation 47 All Sectors 06 Pharma, Medical & Biotech 53 Financial Services 17 Construction 59 Industrials & Chemicals 23 The Middle East & North Africa 65 Energy, Mining & Utilities 29 About Merrill Corporation 72 Consumer 35 Merrill Corporation Contacts 72 Mergermarket.com Mergermarket Deal Drivers EMEA Foreword 4 Foreword Welcome to the half-year 2017 edition of negotiations and an uncertain economic Despite ongoing political volatility, it is clear Deal Drivers EMEA, published by Mergermarket future, the UK and Ireland still managed that Europe has retained its status as a fertile in association with Merrill Corporation. This to attract the majority of deals within the ground for prize M&A assets. International report provides an extensive review of M&A continent, accounting for 22.6% of total deal and domestic investors as well as PE firms will activity across Europe, the Middle East and count. The falling pound offered a further continue to do battle to secure the best deals Doug Cullen North Africa. It offers detailed analyses of incentive for deals. in the second half of the year. Senior Vice President, specific regions and sectors. It also identifies Global Head of Solution Transatlantic spending spree Deal Drivers provide readers with an in- key trends that are set to develop over the Sales, Merrill Corporation Despite uncertainty surrounding President depth review of EMEA-based M&A during H1 course of the next six months. Trump’s ability to impose his proposed pro- 2017 using sector-specific and geographical Dealmakers looking to do deals in Europe business reforms, transatlantic M&A reached data – all filtered through the expert lens have had to contend with heated Brexit new heights. The strength of the dollar against of Mergermarket journalists. We hope that negotiations, divisive regional elections both the pound and euro has powered deal this half-year edition is useful to you and we and a fractious political climate in 2017, and activity regardless of political uncertainty. If welcome your feedback. they have risen to the challenge. Despite a President Trump’s plans to loosen regulation Sincerely, destabilised economic climate, the motivation on high-profile deals come into fruition, M&A for deals – particularly at the top end of activity targeting Europe may be given a the market – remains ever present as M&A further boost. practitioners learn to adjust to a ‘new normal’ Exit stage left in European M&A. Ready availability of cheap financing has Backed by a slew of high-profile mega- pushed European exit activity to a ten- Doug Cullen deals, the region maintained the momentum year high. A selection of megadeals such Senior Vice President gathered in 2016 to reach its highest half-year as Blackstone’s €12.3bn sale of UK-based value since 2007. Highlighting the region’s logistics company Logicor to sovereign wealth growing prominence on the global M&A scene, fund China Investment Corporation and Dubai four out of the top five global deals in H1 2017 Aerospace Enterprise’s €6.9bn acquisition targeted European firms. of aircraft leasing company AWAS from Terra Firma and Canada Pension Plan Investment Fighting off the Brexit blues Board have served to bump up deal value. European assets are continuing to attract However, with inflation starting to bite and a attention from international dealmakers potential rise in interest rates on the horizon, seemingly undeterred by the wave of many are wondering how long this benign uncertainty sweeping across the continent. private equity (PE) environment will last. Against a backdrop of divisive Brexit Mergermarket.com Mergermarket Deal Drivers EMEA Heat Chart 5 EMEA Heat Chart Looking ahead to the next six months of Heat Chart based on potential companies for sale European dealmaking, the TMT, industrials Sector German UK & Ireland Italy Russia France SEE Iberia Middle East Benelux CEE Nordic Total & chemicals, and consumer sectors are speaking & North (excluding expected to generate the highest number of Africa Russia) deals across a number of markets, according TMT 152 83 29 42 46 42 19 21 21 4 14 473 to Mergermarket’s Heat Chart, which tracks Industrials & Chemicals 122 30 54 48 40 19 16 13 13 11 7 373 ‘companies for sale’ stories. Consumer 107 70 85 32 38 10 20 5 5 19 1 392 German-speaking countries are anticipated to Financial Services 72 52 19 13 12 6 12 5 5 13 2 211 attract the most attention, with a healthy pipeline Energy, Mining & Utilities 55 42 17 21 3 17 8 16 16 13 4 212 of deals expected to be announced throughout Business Services 76 54 17 11 20 6 18 2 2 2 3 211 the second half of the year. Interest from Asian Pharma, Medical & Biotech 41 17 11 17 18 15 7 14 14 1 10 165 and US buyers continues to drive deal activity in a sellers’ market with plenty of liquidity. Leisure 35 26 10 9 6 10 4 4 4 3 4 115 Construction 30 10 3 4 8 7 9 2 2 3 4 82 The UK and Ireland are also expected to Transportation 12 2 14 8 5 2 5 1 1 4 5 59 generate considerable deal activity over the next six months, particularly in the TMT and consumer Real Estate 9 6 3 6 1 3 3 2 2 0 0 35 space. A clear driver behind UK deal activity will Agriculture 2 2 0 13 1 3 0 3 3 3 0 30 be fluctuations in the currency markets attracting Defence 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 opportunistic purchases. Total 714 395 262 224 198 140 121 88 88 76 54 2360 Meanwhile, a recovering economy has caused a healthier Italian M&A market, with consumer deals leading the way. The government’s ‘Made in Italy’ initiative, which aims to promote home- grown Italian products abroad, is drawing in Hot Warm Cold foreign buyers pursuing deals in the Italian food and fashion industries. 150 50 20 Dealmaking within the SEE region is gathering 100 40 10 traction, with investor sentiment improving in countries such as Turkey, Greece and Cyprus. 60 30 1 A string of upcoming privatizations over the coming year will likely further create M&A Note: The Intelligence Heat Charts are based on ‘companies for sale’ tracked by Mergermarket in the respective regions between 01/01/2017 opportunities within the region. and 30/06/2017. Opportunities are captured according to the dominant geography and sector of the potential target company. Mergermarket.com Mergermarket Deal Drivers EMEA All Sectors 6 Part of the Acuris Report on Global M&A Activity All Sectors Mergermarket.com Mergermarket Deal Drivers EMEA All Sectors 7 All sectors Further information Dealmakers have continued to seize M&A industrial gas firm Linde. The trend for fewer was the consumer sector which saw the most Get in touch opportunities within the European continent in but larger deals seems to have spread to North impressive growth in H1, on the back of a flurry the first half of 2017. Activity has been driven American dealmakers, with deal count decreasing of megadeals. There were three deals valued be an increased appetite for larger deals, from 350 in H1 2016 to 302 in H1 2017. over €10bn announced in the first half of the Katharine Dennys with a total value of €449.7bn marking the year, marking a huge rebound from H1 2016 Industrials powers ahead highest half-year figure since 2007. If current where the highest announced deal was valued The industrials & chemicals sector has activity maintains this momentum, 2017 deal at €2.6bn. retained its dominance in European M&A, value looks set to top the post-crisis high of with a total deal value of €76.7bn – jumping Niche markets such as luxury are attracting €814.1bn, achieved in 2015. 60.3% compared to the previous six months. dealmaker attention due to a competitive Yet, reflecting dealmakers’ ambitions to secure Industrials & chemicals dealmaking took the mass market and a customer base with a bigger deals, deal count has slid from 3,732 to largest share of deal value in Europe, with significant disposal income. This resulted in 3,232 year on year. It seems that in politically 17.3% of the region’s total, and the largest a string of high-profile luxury deals including unpredictable times dealmakers have become share of deal count, with 20.8%. the €24bn tie-up between Italian Luxottica more select in the deals they choose to Group and French Essilor International, The Despite the positive headlines, the sector conduct, resulting in a shift in activity to the Arnault Family Group’s €12.1bn purchase of has felt the effects of a slowdown in Chinese top end of the market.