M&A MARKET UPDATE JANUARY 2019 SOUTHEAST MONTHLY REVIEW
Notable Trends in January 2019
For the month of January, deal count was down 29.0% compared to 2018, dropping from 145 to 103. Conversely, invested capital and median deal size are significantly up, 262.7% and 159.6%, respectively. This drastic increase in invested capital and median deal size are partly contributed to by the $14.6 billion acquisition of Scana by Dominion Resources and the $6.5 billion acquisition of Gulf Power by NextEraEnergy. These two deals made up 68.1% of all the capital invested in January.
The top 3 most active verticals in the month of January were Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT), Industrials, and Manufacturing for 13.3%, 8.9%, and 5.3% of all M&A deals completed in the Southeast region, respectively.
