Total mergers and acquisitions in Asia-Pacific up 12% Year-on-year

As of now, the Asia-Pacific region has announced a total of $612.1 billion trillion in total mergers and acquisitions, up 12% from a year earlier, to become the only region to achieve total agreement growth, according to Dealogic, the financial data provider. In a recent report, Dealogic said Asia-Pacific was the only region in the world to achieve year-on-year growth, compared with the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and the Americas falling by 43% and 22% respectively. (The percentage change indicated in the report is in United States dollars) A number of large mergers and acquisitions have been boosted by the rise in total mergers and acquisitions over the past year, such as the $58 billion trillion in plans by mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to form iron ore joint ventures in June, the report said. But the report also notes that this year's mergers and acquisitions activity is not strong, as can be seen from the total number of reported mergers and acquisitions.　　The number of mergers and acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region this year was 12082, down 13% from 2008 levels. In addition, there has been a corresponding decline in the total amount of miscarriage mergers and acquisitions since this year. The Asia-Pacific region has a total of 83.2 billion U.S. dollars in miscarriage mergers, down 36% from last year.　　But as its mergers and acquisitions activity is relatively active, the total amount of miscarriage and acquisitions in the world accounted for 28%, the share is twice times the year 2008.　　It is worth noting that in the Asia-Pacific mergers and acquisitions in Australia and China mergers and acquisitions activities exceptionally strong, in the forefront of the region. Australia has announced a total of $161.2 billion trillion in mergers and acquisitions, including a joint venture between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, a second-ever acquisition plan with a total of more than $100 billion trillion in Australian assets, according to Dealogic.　　The figures show that Australia has reported a 90% increase in mergers and acquisitions since the start of the year, but only 22% per cent if the BHP/Rio deal is not counted. China's merger plan for the year to date is at $156.9 billion trillion, the second-highest level in history. The total grew by 8%, accounting for more than half of the Asia-Pacific region outside Japan. But the report showed that the number of transactions fell by 6% from the all-time high of 2008. (Snow Ting)