Intralinks predicts global announced M&A volumes in Q1 2015 will be up 10-14 percent year-over-year.Intralinks(R) Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: IL), a leading, global SaaS provider of content management and collaboration solutions, announced today the release of the Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor (DFP), a unique predictor of future mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity.
The Intralinks DFP forecasts changes in the volume of global M&A deals that are expected to be announced in the next six months. The Q1 2015 DFP report suggests that we will see a five percent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) decrease and an eight percent year-on-year (YoY) increase in early-stage global M&A activity in Q1 2015, with particularly strong performances in North America and Asia Pacific. The Q1 2015 DFP points to sustained momentum in M&A activity that will carry into 2015. With this latest DFP report, Intralinks is also continuing to predict that global announced M&A volumes for the full year of 2014 will rise between seven and 11 percent compared to 2013, which would represent the first annual increase in the number of announced M&A deals since 2010.
Early-stage M&A activity levels in Asia Pacific are showing a consistent increase, up 7 percent over the last four quarters, 7 percent YoY and 18 percent QoQ. The jump in QoQ activity was seen across almost the entire APAC region. Leading the pick-up in activity were South Korea, Singapore, India and Japan.
“Deal volumes across Asia Pacific have been particularly impressive, with the largest increases in activity seen across the manufacturing/industrials, technology and consumer sectors,” said Matt Porzio, vice president of M&A strategy and product marketing at Intralinks.
Globally,the Q1 2015 DFP points to sustained momentum in M&A activity that will carry into 2015. With this latest DFP report, Intralinks is also continuing to predict that global announced M&A volumes for the full year of 2014 will rise between seven and 11 percent compared to 2013, which would represent the first annual increase in the number of announced M&A deals since 2010.
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