2018 best year for M&As as deal values rise 126% to $80 billion

2018 can be christened the ‘Year of M&As’, as mergers & acquisitions (M&A)  skyrocketed to a whopping $80 billion, recording a 126 per cent jump on a year-on-year basis. Interestingly, 63 per cent of the total deal value is attributed to the top 10 deals of the year. The Walmart-Flipkart $16 billion deal topped the list.  

The remaining nine deals were also part of the billion-dollar club. The surge in M&A deal values fuelled private equity exit values to  $15.09 billion, an increase of 21 per cent from that of last year, according to the VCCEdge Annual Report. M&A as an exit