With the second quarter of 2018 come and gone, we can examine some of the significant M&A trends that developed in North America and Europe to close out the first half of the year. Among them:
• With the guidance of its new VP of corporate and business development, Emilie Choi, cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase emerged as a strategic acquirer to reckon with, completing five M&A transactions in the space of just three months.
• You likely heard about the game-changing deal Microsoft struck for software development startup GitHub. But that’s just one of several deals the tech giant closed in 2Q.
• Meanwhile, financial sponsors continued a steady QoQ rise in their share of overall deal count with a hand in nearly one out of every three transactions that wrapped up last quarter.
Plenty of other striking data points also emerged over the quarter, as you can see below in our latest M&A datagraphic, which covers 2Q deal activity, top acquirers and much more. All of the data is powered by the PitchBook Platform. Click on the graphic to expand or download a PDF.
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