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2022:187 mergers and acquisitions transactions worth $48 billion concluded in the global data center market for the year
The global data center market has 187 M&A deals in 2022. This is stated in a study by Synergy Research Group, the results of which were published at the end of January 2023. Read more here.
2021: ICT M&A hit $1trn for the year
The volume of mergers and acquisitions transactions in the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry on a global scale at the end of 2021 reached $1 trillion, which is about 30% more than in 2020. Such data in early May 2022 were released by analysts at ResearchAndMarkets.
They estimate that 996 M&A deals were made in the sector in 2021 , a 44% improvement over 2020. This growth was largely due to the SPAC tool. We are talking about the creation of a special company that formally buys another non-public company that wants to go public, bypassing the traditional IPO. Thanks to SPAC, the M&A market size in the ICT industry has grown to its highest value in five years in 2021.
According to ResearchAndMarkets calculations, in 2021 the volume of M&A transactions in the communications segment amounted to $136 billion, in the Internet television market - $70 billion. The largest transactions were the sales of the Italian telecommunications company Telecom Italia to the investment giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for $37.2 billion and the provider Shaw Communications by the Rogers Communications group for $20.8 billion.
Experts called the merger of WarnerMedia's entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery the most approximate deal in the Internet TV market. Other major drivers of M&A market growth in ICT were fintech, cybersecurity, medical technology, big data, M&A intelligence and cloud technology.
In 2021, American IT giants conducted the largest number of deals in 10 years, according to a study by think tank Dealogic. Thus, Microsoft entered into agreements on the acquisition of 56 companies, Amazon and Google - 29 and 22. The total volumes of transactions between Alphabet and Microsoft, amounted to $22 billion and $25.7 billion, respectively, also reached a ten-year high. In turn, Amazon spent a total of $15.7 billion.[1]
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