M&A declines by 53% in June quarter: Ernst & Young

04 Jul 2011 Evaluate

The elevated inflation due to tight monetary stance taken by the Reserve Bank of India has affected the economic expansion in the first quarter of 2011-12.  This slowdown in economy is also visible in the Industry expansion through Mergers and Acquisition (M&A), which witnessed a decline of 53% from the last quarter. 

According to the global consultancy firm Ernst & Young, “the total value of M&A deals involving Indian companies more than halved to $ 7.7 billion in the June quarter”. During the first three month of the current financial year, Indian companies had done 212 M&A deals worth $ 7.7 billion. 'This deal value is approximately 55.3 percent lower than the previous quarter's value of $ 17.3 billion (January-March 2011). The number of deals has also reduced by 6% as compared to 226 deals recorded in the January quarter. During the 2010 June quarter, Indian companies were involved in 258 M&A deals worth $ 15.2 billion.

The fall in the Industry expansion through M&A, is viewed as the negative effect of high inflation that reduced the stock market moral over the slowdown in the India’s GDP growth expectations. The stock market has remained concerned on the inflation and central bank’s stance.

From last few months headline Inflation has been around 9%, above the central banks comfort zone, and challenging the government’s earlier hope of about 6.5% by March. This elevated inflation has forced RBI to take aggressive monetary policy stance on inflation.

According to Ernst & Young, average deal size declined to about $ 90 million in the June quarter as compared to $ 192.4 million in the three months ended March. April to June saw 53 outbound deals, cumulatively worth $ 3.4 billion, accounting for 43.5% of the quarter’s total deal value. During the quarter, five outbound deals involving acquisitions of coal mining assets worth $2.1 billion, accounting for close to 61.1 percent of total outbound deal value happened. During June quarter, Indian companies did 7 acquisitions in Australia of which Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone’s  nearly $2 billion-buyout of Abbot Point Coal Terminal in Australia was the biggest transaction in the June quarter.

On the basis of deal count, the technology sector witnessed the maximum number of deals (26), followed by industrial products (24 deals), retail and consumer products (22 deals) and financial services (21 deals) sectors.

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