Tortola Capital Focuses on 2009 Global Mergers-and-Acquisition Activity

Jan. 12, 2010 - PRLog -- Global mergers-and-acquisition activity for 2009 was $2.3 trillion, down 22% from $2.94 trillion in 2008, according to Tortola Capital, quoting data analytics firm Dealogic. This is the lowest dollar value for mergers-and-acquisitions since $1.98 trillion in deals in 2004.

The drop would have been slightly greater in 2009 were it not for extraordinary government interventions across the world, comprising some $197.5 billion of total deal volume on such investments as U.S. insurer American International Group Inc., explains a senior analyst at Tortola Capital. Globally, these government-backed acquisitions accounted for about 8.5% of all deal volume in 2009. Government-related deals totaled $186.8 billion in 2008, or about 6% of all transactions.

In the U.S., 2009 deal volume fell 10%, to $766.8 billion, compared with $850.6 billion in 2008. The number of deals dropped 17%, to 7,140 deals, compared with 8,614 in 2008. In Europe, the drop was more precipitous. Deal volume fell 44%, to $691.4 billion in 2009, compared with $1.24 trillion in 2008.

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