James Langton
Canadian merger-and-acquisition activity hit another all-time high in the first quarter of 2021, according to new data from Crosbie & Co.
The Toronto-based investment bank reported that there were 1,007 M&A deals announced in the first quarter, up 8% from the prior quarter and 26% from the same quarter last year, to a new record high for deal volume.
Deal value totalled $81 billion, down slightly from the fourth quarter’s $84 billion.
“While some of this record activity likely represents a continued catchup of deals put on hold early in the pandemic, this may also be a sign of the next leg up in the M&A market,” said Ian Macdonell, managing director at Crosbie & Co., in a release.
James Langton
Canadian merger-and-acquisition activity hit another all-time high in the first quarter of 2021, according to new data from Crosbie & Co.
The Toronto-based investment bank reported that there were 1,007 M&A deals announced in the first quarter, up 8% from the prior quarter and 26% from the same quarter last year, to a new record high for deal volume.
Deal value totalled $81 billion, down slightly from the fourth quarter’s $84 billion.
“While some of this record activity likely represents a continued catchup of deals put on hold early in the pandemic, this may also be a sign of the next leg up in the M&A market,” said Ian Macdonell, managing director at Crosbie & Co., in a release.
300 to 400 million! Think about it: that’s around one million per day, a billion every three years. Are there enough small birds in Canada to sustain this slaughter? I think that, at that rate, we would have run out of birds some years ago. I recently read an article in the Guardian, called “Meaty meals and play stop cats killing wildlife,” about a scientific study done in the United Kingdom, the premise being to understand why some well-fed (but not all) housecats hunt. Their estimate was that cats kill around 100 million animals annually in the U.K., of which 25 per cent are birds. Canada’s human population is about 55 per cent that of the U.K., so assuming that the cat and kill ratios are about the same, that would be about 14 million birds killed in Canada.
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James Langton
Merger and acquisition activity that was paused when Covid-19 hit came roaring back in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to new data from Crosbie & Co.
The firm reported that deal volume surged to record levels in Q4, with 935 announced transactions. M&A activity rose 16% from the third quarter, which rebounded (rising 34%) after a very weak second quarter due to the effects of the pandemic.
The record fourth quarter pushed the annual transaction total to 3,136 in M&A deals, just shy of the tally for 2019.
“We saw a surge in transaction announcements in Q4 as many transactions that were put on hold in the first half of the year due to the pandemic were revived and completed,” said Ian Macdonell, managing director at Crosbie & Co., in a release.