Argentina - Annual 2016

January 2017
Argentina - Annual 2016
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The dynamics of the Argentine M&A market in 2016 surpassed by 37.33% the transactions of the whole of 2015, with the most active sectors being real estate and financial based on the number of transactions.

Specifically, the Argentine M&A market registered 206 transactions in 2016, of which 107 had a combined non-confidential value of USD 14.18bn. These figures differ from those of 2015, which recorded 150 transactions with a non-confidential value of 54 deals of USD 1.91bn, entailing a 641.05% increase in the moved capital compared to 2015.

Additionally, of the transactions registered in the year, 79 are low market (deal value under USD 100), 20 are mid-market (between USD 100m and USD 500m), and eight are high-market (over USD 500m).

In quarterly terms, 4Q16 was the second most prominent of the year, with a recorded volume of 59 mergers and acquisitions, of which 34 had a combined non-confidential value of USD 7.71bn.


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