
Mastering M&A in a Shifting Landscape: Strategies for Success
Morné van der Merwe - Alchemy Law | 2024/2025 Africa M&A Outlook

Morné van der Merwe - Alchemy Law | 2024/2025 Africa M&A Outlook

Lydia Shadrach-Razzino - Baker McKenzie | 2024/2025 Africa M&A Outlook

With cash-strapped consumers reluctant to spend and some businesses downgrading profit expectations, M&A activity in consumer markets has fallen sharply. Yet there are still some early signs of a possible recovery ahead.

Financial services M&A activity continues to ease from the record-breaking heights reached in 2021, but changing consumer behaviours and tougher economic conditions are expected to drive strategic deals in select pockets of the industry.

Despite a challenging start to 2024, M&A activity in the Australian and New Zealand real estate sectors looks set for a rebound in the second half of the year, with industrial deals predicted to lead the way.

SafetyCulture’s chief executive Luke Anear has helped make his company's work safety app the most widely used work safety software application in the world. It is used in more than 200 countries. Users of the app have conducted more than 12 million audits.

New Financial Services M&A deals were up 21% QoQ in UK&I but down 17% in Europe in Q3 2023.

Powering change: A 2024 surge in Energy, Utilities & Resources deals across the UK and Europe is anticipated, despite a slow third quarter in 2023.

A closer look at Real Estate M&A trends across borders based on Ansarada Q3 Deal Indicators data.

Ansarada's Deal Indicators data reveals the shift in median average deal durations over the past three years.

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Experts agree that we're seeing the tell-tale signs of rising levels of insolvency and restructuring activity.

Our Deal Indicators show it's not a great time to go public.

Ansarada Deal Workflow is now available to buy-side teams, bringing unparalleled efficiencies to acquisitions, post-deal integrations and more.

Ansarada uses hundreds of thousands of anonymized real-time data points to reveal powerful emerging trends across deal types and industries in their FY23 Deal Indicators Report.