Asia-Pac M&A Q1 deals up 22% at US$112.7b
Real estate takes a quarter of the activity; Singapore firms attract some US$12b of the volumes
Singapore
ANNOUNCED merger and acquisition (M&A) deals involving Asia-Pacific companies got off to a strong start this year, powered by a property deal in China and the purchase of a Korean brewer.
The total value of such deals in Asia-Pacific excluding-Japan was up 22 per cent year on year at US$112.7 billion in the first three months of 2014, according to a preliminary report by Thomson Reuters.
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