Ascending INDIAN M&A AND FDI
Significant uptrend in M&A activity in the first quarter of the year 2016;
The first quarter of 2016 in totality has already escalated to 63% i.e. $7.8 billion;
245 deals announced in this quarter as against 219 around the same time last year;
Deals worth $5.4 billion were announced in March itself;
An eight-fold leap over the deals a year ago;
More than 180 start-ups received investments of more than $454 million;
Core sectors such as telecom, energy and automotive together contributed 50% of the total M&A deal values. Telecom contributed 19% of the total deal value.
28 Private Equity & Venture Capital Investments worth $970 million.
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India achieved record $51 billion FDI during the period of 11 months from April 2015 to February 2016.
All time high net FDI inflows registered at $3 billion in January 2016 on a 12 months moving average basis.
India received 204 FDI proposals in 2015 worth $39.32 billion and has already received 64 proposals in 2016 (till 22nd April, 2016).
Services attracted the maximum investment at $5.95 billion in the said 11 months.
Indian FDI inflows rose from 1.7% of GDP in 2014 to 2.1% in 2015.
In 2015, India accounted for 20% of Asia-Pacific’s FDI market share.
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