The United States registered the highest outbound as well as inbound mergers and acquisitions deal volume in the technology sector in 2018, finds GlobalData.
M&A outbound
All the top 10 positions in terms of the number of outbound M&A deals were occupied by developed nations, with the United States leading the way in terms of both deal volume and value in 2018.
The United States was way ahead of the remaining countries in the top 10 list, with 552 outbound M&A deals and $85.2 billion in disclosed investment value in 2018.
All the top 10 countries witnessed an increase in outbound M&A deals volume in 2018 as compared to the 2014–2017 average. However, five of them witnessed decline in investment value in 2018 compared with the 2014–2017 average.
Switzerland registered the highest growth in deal volume in 2018 compared with the 2014–2017 average, and Sweden occupied the top position in terms of growth in investm
