The £80bn 引き継ぎ/買収 feeding frenzy: 企て,努力,提案s for UK 会社/堅いs 急に上がる

A flurry of foreign 急襲するs has seen the value of 企て,努力,提案s for British companies 攻撃する,衝突する almost £80billion so far this year, new 人物/姿/数字s show.

Overseas 買い手s accounted for £63billion, or more than 80 per cent, of 引き継ぎ/買収 申し込む/申し出s in the UK from January to April, によれば data from the London 在庫/株 交流 Group (LSEG).

It comes as 全世界の dealmaking roars 支援する, climbing by 31 per cent to more than a 一兆 dollars (£850billion) in the period.

The 人物/姿/数字s 含む agreed 同様に as 拒絶するd 申し込む/申し出s.

In the UK, 採掘 巨大(な) BHP’s £31billion approach for 競争相手 Anglo American was the biggest.?

Going cheap:?Overseas buyers accounted for £63bn, or more than 80%, of takeover offers in the UK from January to April, according to data from the London Stock Exchange Group

Going cheap:?Overseas 買い手s accounted for £63bn, or more than 80%, of 引き継ぎ/買収 申し込む/申し出s in the UK from January to April, によれば data from the London 在庫/株 交流 Group

The Australian-名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる)d 入札者 saw it s 申し込む/申し出 拒絶するd but is seen as likely to come 支援する for another 攻撃する.

Also 存在 追求するd by a foreign predator is 王室の Mail owner International 配当s Services (IDS) while others, such as cybersecurity 会社/堅い Darktrace, have already succumbed.

The value of 引き継ぎ/買収 activity with a UK 的 has climbed to £78billion from just £29billion at the same time last year.

And with four-fifths of the 入札者s from overseas, foreign 会社/堅いs have never been as 支配的な in Britain’s 合併 and 取得/買収 (M&A) market.

Over the past 10年間 they have typically accounted for around two-thirds of 引き継ぎ/買収s of UK 会社/堅いs.

The US 支配するd 全世界の dealmaking, 代表するing 56 per cent of the total ? the highest 株 in 25 years in the 最新の 調印する that the 巨大(な) of world capitalism is continuing to outmuscle its 競争相手s.

Seventeen of the largest 20 取引,協定s 世界的な 発表するd in the four-month period 伴う/関わるd a US 的 but it was not a 事例/患者 of foreign predators 急襲するing in, with all but one of them 国内の 引き継ぎ/買収s.

Lu cille Jones, 上級の 経営者/支配人 at LSEG 取引,協定s 知能, said: ‘The 回復する in 取引,協定 making comes after a 非常に長い 干ばつ.?

M&A 急落(する),激減(する)d to a 10年間-low last year as geopolitical 緊張s, 急に上がるing 利益/興味 率s and 後退,不況 恐れるs 抑制(する)d the appetite for 危険-taking.

‘While many headwinds remain, 改善するd 経済的な 条件s and a more stable 財政/金融ing 環境 seem to be 刺激するing 取引,協定 making, 特に in the US.’

However, globally, dealmaking still has not 回復するd to levels seen in 2021 or 2022.

And the total of £199billion in April alone ? while 9 per cent up on last year ? was 負かす/撃墜する by 5 per cent compared with March.

The 人物/姿/数字s showed that the number of 取引,協定s globally in the first four months of the year ? at 14,017 ? was nearly a third lower than in the same period of 2024.

But the value of M&A activity was 上げるd by an 増加する in the number of mega-急襲するs 価値(がある) $5billion (£4billion) or more to 36, which was up from 2022, and the highest 類似の 一致する since 2021.

In Britain, the most 注目する,もくろむ-catching activity has 伴う/関わるd American and other overseas outfits taking advantage of 取引-地階 valuations.

Darktrace has agreed to be swallowed up by the US 私的な 公正,普通株主権 会社/堅い Thoma Bravo, for £4.3billion.

And 一括ing 会社/堅い DS Smith’s board has 支援するd a £5.8billion 提案 by America’s International Paper.

IDS has 拒絶するd a £3.2billion approach from Czech 実業家 Daniel Kretinsky.

The 引き継ぎ/買収 申し込む/申し出s have 追加するd to much soul-searching in the City of London over the loss of British companies to foreign 所有権.

Other 取引,協定s, though, have been UK-on-UK 事件/事情/状勢s, with building society 全国的な buying Virgin Money for £2.9billion and housebuilder Barratt 選ぶing up Redrow for £2.5billion.