{"id":408940,"date":"2010-03-09T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:405277"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:14:00","slug":"ma-activity-better-but-nowhere-near-pre-crisis-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/408940","title":{"rendered":"M&A activity better but nowhere near pre-crisis levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada's M&A market continues to heat up, but the number of deals remains well below the frantic pace set previous to the financial crisis. <\/p>\n

In the fourth quarter of 2009, there were 254 announced transactions worth almost $33-billion, according to the Financial Post Crosbie: Mergers & Acquisitions in Canada database. <\/p>\n

The latest results represented the third consecutive quarter of increasing activity for Canadian M&A markets and the highest level of activity in the last five quarters.<\/p>\n

More specifically, the number of announcements in Q4 was 52% above the cyclical low seen in the first quarter of 2009 when there were only 167 announcements. <\/p>\n

\u201cFactors contributing to the higher activity included greater confidence in the economic outlook, improving valuations, and greater availability of financing in many market segments,\u201d said Colin Walker, Managing Director, at Crosbie & Company. <\/p>\n

Starting in the fourth quarter of 2005, M&A activity was routinely above 350 deals per quarter, reaching a record 416 transactions in the second quarter of 2007. The number of deals dwindled from there, hitting a bottom early last year. <\/p>\n

International acquisition activity by Canadian buyers, increased acquisition activity involving government related entities (especially among larger deals),
and strong activity in energy related sectors, have been major themes in the 2009 rebound in M&A activity. <\/p>\n

Of the ten largest transactions in Q4, seven were cross border deals, three were energy related, and three involved government related entities. <\/p>\n

David Pett<\/a><\/p>\n

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Canada's M&A market continues to heat up, but the number of deals remains well below the frantic pace set previous to the financial crisis. In the fourth quarter of 2009, there were 254 announced transactions worth almost $33-billion, according to the Financial Post Crosbie: Mergers & Acquisitions in Canada database. The latest results represented the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}