Zero2IPO Data: China’s M&A Activity to Be Stable in Apr, Real Estate M&A Rising

Pedaily.cn 17 May 2013
According to PE Data of Zero2IPO Research Center, China’s M&A market totally had 65 M&A deals in April 2013 involving a total value of US$2.53B, among which 63 were disclosed with amount. Averagely, each M&A deal involved about US$40.13M. The total value of China’s M&A deals declined by 15.1% in April comparing with that in March, down 50.8% year-over-year. Significant HoH fall resulted from seven outbound M&A deals in April 2012 of US$3.16B, which overtops total value in April.
Specifically, China’s M&A market totally closed 65 M&A deals in April 2013, a slight squeeze in M&A deals in comparison with March 2013. Domestic M&A deals were 59, accounting for 90.7% of total M&A deals, 58 ones of which sealed with amount disclosure involving US$2.30B, or 90.8%; four outbound M&A deals took up 6.2% in number, all of which closed with amount disclosure involving US$207.00M, or 8.2%; inbound M&A deals were two with about US$26.00M, respectively accounting for 3.1% in number and 1.0% in total value. Alibaba Group’s acquisition of 18.0% equity of Sina Weibo topped other M&A seals in April in consideration of US$586.00M. Sina Weibo is currently one of the most active players among China’s social media, which will undoubtedly provide floods of inflow sources for Alibaba Group’s E-business, whilst Sina Weibo finally cashed its enormous users.
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