Oaklins M&A Market Report 2022
A detailed analysis of the M&A market with German counterparts
Despite the Ukraine-Russia conflict, rising energy prices, broken supply chains and lasting effects from the COVID-19 pandemic, the German market for mergers & acquisitions proved to be surprisingly robust in 2022. Oaklins Germany analyzed the M&A activity with German participation of the past year for you and provides an outlook for 2023.
For 2022 we are looking back on a year that dismisses all pessimists, with 2,734 completed or announced transactions with German participation by 8 December 2022. The decline in transaction activity compared to the absolute record year 2021 is significantly lower than many industry experts had expected in advance. Over the course of the year, we documented only 176 fewer transactions than 2021 with 2,910 transactions. This corresponds to a decline in the transaction level of only 6.0%. At the same time, we documented 1,058 more transactions than in the historic comparison of the average since 1998 (+63.1%). Given this result, it can be deduced that, despite the exceptional macroeconomic situation, the players have continued to position themselves with a marked appetite for transactions.
Read about the top 30 deals, the hottest sectors, the top countries with which German companies completed transactions and our outlook for 2023 in our Oaklins Germany M&A Market Report 2022.
We wish you an exciting journey through our report and look forward to exchanging ideas with you.
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