HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific, excluding Japan, acquisitions in 2016 eased off to $1.2 trillion, down from a record $1.3 trillion in the previous year, despite announced China outbound deals touching an all-time high of $523 billion.
State-owned China National Chemical Corp's pact to buy Swiss group Syngenta for $43 billion was the biggest deal in Asia Pacific this year.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc was the top M&A adviser in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, followed by China International Capital Corp Ltd , and UBS Group AG , according to the Thomson Reuters league table data.
(Reporting by Sumeet Chatterjee; Editing by Richard Pullin)
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