Our latest Offshore-i report on transactions for thesecond quarter of 2015 reveals that the number of offshore M&A deals and IPOs across jurisdictions increased by 25% in Q2 when compared to the first quarter of the year while average deal size remained robust.
The Asian markets continue to help drive offshore dealmaking, with five of the 10 largest deals in Q2 2015 involving an Asian company acquiring an offshore target. Hong Kong companies attracted four of the top ten this quarter.
Key Asia themes this quarter:
- Hong Kong announced 113 deals worth a combined USD25bn
- 24 of the 40 offshore companies that have either listed or announced plans to IPO have headed for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- Chinese businesses were involved in 54 deals with an offshore target, and were the subject of 109 deals where an offshore business was the acquirer.
- The largest China outbound deal saw Zhongrun Resources Investment of China, a financial services business, the subject of a capital increase by investors in China and Cayman worth USD4.6bn.
- In terms of international acquirers buying offshore assets, the most active jurisdiction was Hong Kong.
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