Total financial services industry deals for July 2020 worth $12.43bn were announced globally, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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The value marked a decrease of 61.6% over the previous month and a drop of 57.7% when compared with the last 12-month average of $29.39bn.
In terms of number of deals, the sector saw a drop of 9.7% over the last 12-month average with 269 deals against the average of 298 deals.
In value terms, North America led the activity with deals worth $7.7bn.
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By GlobalDataFinancial services industry deals in July 2020: Top deals
The top five financial services deals accounted for 66.7% of the overall value during July 2020.
The combined value of the top five financial services deals stood at $8.29bn, against the overall value of $12.43bn recorded for the month.
The top five financial services industry deals of July 2020 tracked by GlobalData were:
1) The Allstate’s $4.52bn acquisition of National General Holdings
2) The $2.14bn acquisition of Hastings Group by Rand Merchant Investment Holdings and Sampo
3) Madison Dearborn Partners’ $625m private equity deal with Benefytt Technologies
4) The $570m acquisition of Permira Holdings by Petershill Private Equity
5) Ron Weissberg’s acquisition of Psagot Investment House for $436.67m.
Verdict deals analysis methodology
This analysis considers only announced and completed deals from the GlobalData financial deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. Country and industry are defined according to the headquarters and dominant industry of the target firm. The term ‘acquisition’ refers to both completed deals and those in the bidding stage.
GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.
More in-depth reports and analysis on all reported deals are available for subscribers to GlobalData’s deals database.
