• ENAP Sipetrol, Naftogaz, Petroceltic among vendors
• Strategic realignments spur sales
• Deep pocketed and diverse bidder pool to capture deals

Ahead of our Technology Forum, experts from EY discuss factors that need to be considered when successfully integrating a tech acquisition.

This week’s Dealcast examines global changes in merger control.

Media M&A has hit the ground running in 2018 with Comcast’s proposed $40.9bn takeover of Sky.

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is interviewed in this week's podcast.

Since the start of 2017, increasing competition, cheap financing and record fundraising has led to increasingly larger buyouts, and the trend shows no signs of waning.

This is a review of 2017’s most prolific Asian individual financial and legal advisers. The information can also be found in our League Tables tab as well as on the Profiler app available here.

We learned a lot at the 2017 Italian M&A and Private Equity Forum, take a trip through the interviews we held with some of the biggest name sin the market to get the latest insights.  

• Italian M&A activity has increased 26% by value compared to 2016
• Inbound investment has surged in the consumer sector accounting for 50.1% of market share
• Italy has brought 15 IPOs to market worth EUR 3.4bn - 2.5x more than 2016

The Dealreporter team discuss Vantiv's bid for Worldpay and ECM activity in Europe, including Deutsche Bank, Allied Irish Bank, Santander, Delivery Hero, Just Eat and Saudi Aramco. With Julie-Anna Needham, Samantha Tomaszczyk and John West.

A year on from the last time we sat down with Anya Cummins, Partner and Head of M&A at Deloitte we wanted to see if there is any more certainty around Brexit since Article 50 was triggered. We were also keen to find out what the deal drivers are for Irish M&A and PE investments in the next 12 months. 

We caught up with AIG to get their take on where M&A insurance is heading and how to reduce “unknown matters".