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Announced transactions rose 9.4%, with mid-market activity driving much of the increase.<\/p>\n
Deal-making by investment banks in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan rose to a four-year high in the year to date, with announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) reaching $469.5b.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That was 12.4% higher than the same period last year. The number of announced deals also increased, rising 9.4% year-on-year, helped by stronger activity in mid-market transactions.<\/p>\n Large deals were more active than a year earlier. M&A transactions valued at $5b or more totalled $105.4b, compared with $118.3b during the same period last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Smaller transactions still made up most of the increase, with deal value below $1b rising 22.6% and deal count up 9.4%.<\/p>\n M&A involving APAC targets reached $359.9b, down 2.5% from a year earlier, despite an 11.8% increase in the number of deals.<\/p>\n High technology was the largest sector for deal-making, accounting for 24.8% of total activity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The sector recorded $116.6b in deal value, more than double last year\u2019s level and the highest first-half total for the sector since 2022<\/p>\n Industrials followed with $68.7b, up 67.4% year-on-year. Materials accounted for $67.0b, down 14.3% from a year earlier but still representing 14.6% of total market share.<\/p>\n Private equity-backed activity in APAC reached a four-year high of $69.8b, an increase of 90.4% from the previous year. The number of private equity-backed transactions also more than doubled, rising 109.2%.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Announced transactions rose 9.4%, with mid-market activity driving much of the increase. Deal-making by investment banks in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan rose to a four-year high in the year to date, with announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) reaching $469.5b.\u00a0 That was 12.4% higher than the same period last year. The number of announced deals also increased, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-rubriki"],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Singapore-30-1140x445.jpg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Singapore-30-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Singapore-30-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"full":["https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Singapore-30.jpg",1536,1024,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relinvestmentsgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}