Fri, Jan 8, 2016

Transaction Trail Annual Issue 2015

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The Duff & Phelps 2015 annual issue of Transaction Trail, a report on mergers & acquisitions (“M&A”), private equity/venture capital investments (“PE/VC”) and initial public offerings (“IPOs”) in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia is now available.

In 2015, total M&A, IPO and PE deals in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia were recorded as US $115.4 billion spread across 1118 deals, which was a significant increase over 2014 and 2013.

Media coverage includes:

Television Coverage

  • 10 Dec 2015 – Channel News Asia: “M&A deals in Singapore almost double in 2015”
  • 9 Jan 2016 - Channel News Asia: "Money Mind - A Rough Start"

Radio Coverage

  • 11 Dec – 93.8 Live FM

Press Coverage

  • 10 Dec – The Business Times: “Sovereign funds’ M&As drive surge in capital market deals: Duff & Phelps”
  • 10 Dec – The Edge Markets: “Capital market deals surge on sovereign funds’ M&A: Duff & Phelps”
  • 11 Dec – The Straits Times: “Corporate deal value reaches 4-year high”
  • 11 Dec – Lianhe Zaobao: 调查: 本地投资并购金额倍增至1456亿元
  • 12 Dec - AsiaOne Online: "Corporate deal value reaches 4-year high"
  • 28 Dec 2015 – Deal Street Asia: “Malaysia 2015: M&As rose 55% in volume but fell 18% in value to $8.9b” 
  • 29 December 2015 – Deal Street Asia: “Indonesia 2015: IPO market expands with 20 firms raising $1b” 
  • 30 Dec 2015 – Bernama: “M&A Activity Remains Healthy in 2016”
  • 30 Dec 2015 – The Rakyat Post: “Deals still strong in Malaysia despite economic concerns”
  • 30 Dec 2015 – Deal Street Asia: “Indonesia 2015: M&A deal volumes see uptick but values crash over 200% to S$1.57b” 
  • 31 Dec 2015 – Sin Chew Jit Poh online: “M&A Activity to remain healthy in 2016” 
  • 31 Dec 2015 – Deal Street Asia: “Indonesia 2015: A comeback year for private equity” 
  • 2 Jan 2016 – Deal Street Asia: “Indonesia to tighten norms for foreign VCs; wants them to form JVs with local firms” 
  • 4 Jan 2016 – Deal Street Asia: “Singapore 2015: The year of M&A with 90% uptick in deal value; Temasek & GIC corner a third of pie” 
  • 5 Jan 2016 - Deal Street Asia: "Malaysia IPOs: A challenging 2015, slower 2016 for co listings"
  • 11 Jan 2016 - Deal Street Asia: "Indonesia's regulator grants licenses to 4 venture capital firms"


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