This document provides information on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that took place between January 2015 and September 2016. It lists the purchaser, purchased company, transaction value and date for numerous M&A deals. Key details include Teva acquiring Actavis for $40.5B, Berkshire Hathaway acquiring Precision Castparts for $37.2B, and Softbank acquiring ARM Holdings for $32B. The document also categorizes different types of M&A and provides a monthly breakdown of numerous other acquisition deals.

1. Mergers And Acquisitions - M&A
Sagar Dusane
MMS- B-11-(2015-17)
AIAIMS- Mumbai 01

2. Mergers And Acquisitions - M&A
• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is a general
term that refers to the consolidation of
companies or assets.
• Mergers- Combination of two companies to form
a new company
• Acquisition- Purchase of one company by
another in which no new company is formed.

3. Types of M&A
• Horizontal M&A- Tata steel acquiring Corus steel,
Bridgestone
• Vertical M&A- Backward and Forward
Engineering
Tata power acquires Boomi coal mines and
going for retails in Mumbai suburbs
• Concentric M&A- Lipton India with Brooke bond,
Bank of Mathura with ICICI Bank
• Conglomerate M&A- Reliance Textiles to
Petrochemical or Tele communication

4. Top 5 M&A
Year Purchaser Purchased Transaction value
(in billion USD)
2015 Teva Pharmaceutical
Industries
Actavis Generics 40.5
2015 Berkshire Hathaway Precision Castparts 37.2
2016 Shire Baxalta 32.0
2012 Softbank ARM Holdings 32.0
2013 Deutsche Telekom MetroPCS 29.0

5. Jan 2015
Date M&A
03/01/2015Bharat Forge acquired France-based Company Mecanique Generale Langroise
05/01/2015SRF Limited acquired DuPont's pharma business brand Dymel
07/01/2015Facebook Inc acquired voice recognition startup company Wit.ai
08/01/2015Hike Messenger acquired Zip phone to launch free voice calling
08/01/2015IT services firm Synechron acquired Paris-based Team Trade
12/01/2015
Tech Mahindra signed definitive agreement to acquire Swiss firm SOFGEN
Holdings Limited
13/01/2015Zomato acquired US based food portal Urbanspoon
22/01/2015Apple Inc acquired British startup firm Semetric Limited
23/01/2015
Emami International FZE acquired 66.67 percent controlling stake in Fravin
Pty Limited
30/01/2015Zomato Media Pvt Ltd acquired Turkey-based firm Mekanist

6. Feb 2015
Date M&A
11/02/2015
Star India Pvt Ltd acquired Telugu television channel Maa Television
Network Ltd
12/02/2015 Microsoft acquired Sunrise for 100 million US dollars
12/02/2015 Aditya Birla Chemicals to merge with Grasim Industries
13/02/2015 BT acquired U.K. Wireless Carrier EE for 19 Billion US dollar
13/02/2015 Pfizer announced to acquire Hospira for 17 billion US dollar
16/02/2015
Infosys announced to acquire automation technology firm Panaya Inc for
1200 crore rupees
19/02/2015 Snapdeal.com acquired luxury fashion portal Exclusively.com
20/02/2015 Samsung acquired US-based mobile wallet startup LoopPay
24/02/2015
Hitachi announced to acquire Finmeccanica Rail Businesses for 2 billion
US dollar
25/02/2015 Google acquired Facebook mobile marketing startup Toro

7. March 2015
Date M&A
03/03/2015 Online Taxi-service aggregator Olacabs acquired TaxiForSure
04/03/2015
Sun Pharmaceutical announced to buy GlaxoSmithKline's opiates business in
Australia
05/03/2015
Reliance Infrastructure Ltd announced acquisition of Pipavav Defence
Company Ltd
07/03/2015 Flipkart acquired mobile ad network AdiQuity
11/03/2015 Aditya Birla Retail acquired Total hypermarket
16/03/2015 Facebook acquired shopping search engine TheFind
19/03/2015 Lupin to acquire additional 40 percent stake in S Aftrica's Pharma Dynamics
20/03/2015 Snapdeal acquired logistics firm GoJavas to strengthen its delivery operations

8. April 2015
Date M&A
01/04/2015 RBI approved the amalgamation of ING Vysya Bank with Kotak Mahindra Bank
01/04/2015 Alibaba signed digital distribution deal with German music rights group BMG
04/04/2015 Snapdeal acquired RupeePower to launch financial service
06/04/2015
Google signed strategic partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers to target Digital India
projects
09/04/2015 Snapdeal acquired mobile recharge service FreeCharge
13/04/2015 Godrej Nature’s Basket joined hands with Amazon for selling its products
13/04/2015 Royal Dutch Shell Plc acquired BG Group for about 70 billion US dollar
15/04/2015 Temasek acquired InnoVen Capital India for 300 crore rupees
20/04/2015 Carzonrent India acquired car-pooling startup firm Ridingo
22/04/2015 MakeMyTrip acquired travel startup Mygola
28/04/2015 French IT firm CapGemini announced to buy US rival IGATE for 4 billion US dollar
30/04/2015 PropTiger acquired Makaan.com
30/04/2015 Flipkart acquired mobile marketing firm Appiterate

9. May 2015
Date M&A
07/05/2015 Myntra.com acquired startup firm Native5 Software Solutions Pvt Ltd
12/05/2015 US-based company mGage acquired Unicel Technologies
16/05/2015 Askme acquired BestAtLowest.com for 10 million US dollar
19/05/2015
Apple Inc acquired GPS firm Coherent Navigations to improve Apple
mapping capabilities
26/05/2015 Snapdeal acquired Hyderabad-based startup MartMobi

10. June- July 2015
Date M&A
02/06/2015 Intel announced to buy Altera for 16.7 billion US dollars
03/06/2015 Emami Limited acquired hair care brand Kesh King
10/06/2015 PVR Ltd agreed to acquire DLF's DT Cinemas for 500 crore rupees
15/06/2015 Aequs Pvt Ltd acquired Paris-based T&K Machine Inc
16/06/2015 Snapdeal.com acquired Letsgomo Labs
17/06/2015
SunEdison Inc acquired Singapore-based Continuum Wind Energy
Ltd
24/07/2015 Lupin acquired US generics company GAVIS Pharmaceuticals LLC
28/07/2015
Rajesh Exports acquired Switzerland-based world’s largest gold
refinery Valcambi

11. Aug- Sept 2015
Date M&A
04/08/2015 Bharti Airtel acquired YTS Solutions for mobile payment solutions
17/08/2015 Housing.com acquired Bengaluru-based HomeBuy360
18/08/2015
Birla Corporation acquired two Indian units of Lafarge Group for
5000 crore rupees
12/09/2015 CarDekho acquired Auto portal Zigwheels
17/09/2015 Blackstone Group LP acquired UK’s Serco Group Plc
17/09/2015 Sun Pharma entered into an agreement to acquire InSite Vision
18/09/2015 Hero Cycles acquired Firefox Bikes in all-cash transaction
25/09/2015 CCI cleared Heidelberg-Italcementi Deal

12. Oct- Nov 2015
Date M&A
09/10/2015
Gannett Co agreed to acquire Journal Media for 280 million US
dollars
15/10/2015 Dell Inc acquired EMC Corporation for 67 billion US dollars
19/10/2015
Infosys announced to acquire Noah Consulting for 70 Million US
dollars
30/10/2015
HCL Technologies acquired CRM services firm PowerObjects for
299 crore rupees
02/11/2015 MTS India merged with Reliance Communications
16/11/2015 Online auto classifieds portal CarTrade acquired CarWale
17/11/2015
Marriott International to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Worldwide

13. Dec 2015
Date M&A
12/12/2015
Alibaba agreed to buy 112-year old newspaper South China
Morning Post of Hong Kong
12/12/2015
DuPont and Dow Chemical Company announced to merge to
form DowDuPont
15/12/2015 Mahindra Group acquired Italian auto design firm Pininfarina
18/12/2015
Hindustan Unilever signed agreement with Mosons Group to
acquire Indulekha
22/12/2015 Digital media company Arre acquired Apalya Technologies
22/12/2015 On-demand grocery service PepperTap acquired Jiffstore

14. Jan- Feb 2016
Date M&A
05/01/2016 Volvo Buses India merged with Volvo India Pvt Ltd
05/01/2016 Nokia completed acquisition of Alca-Lucent for 15.6 billion euro
08/01/2016 Quikr acquired online real estate portal Commonfloor.com
19/01/2016
Mindtree acquired a Salesforce Platinum Consulting Partner
Magnet 360
29/01/2016 Cognizant acquired US-based KBACE Technologies
12/02/2016
Wipro acquired US-based HealthPlan Services for 3150 crore
rupees

15. Mar- April 2016
Date M&A
01/03/2016
UltraTech acquired cement units of Jaiprakash Associates for 16500 crore
rupees
10/03/2016 Lupin completed acquisition of GAVIS Pharma
10/03/2016
Tata Power arm inked agreement with IRRL to acquire 30 MW wind farm in
Maharashtra
18/03/2016 Bharti Airtel acquired Videocon's spectrum in 6 circles for 4428 crore rupees
29/03/2016 Yokohama Rubber signed agreement with KKR to acquire Alliance Tire Group
31/03/2016 NTT Data inked agreement to acquire Dell Services
03/04/2016 Flipkart acquired UPI-based payments start-up PhonePe
05/04/2016
Blackstone inked agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to acquire 60%
stake in Mphasis Limited
08/04/2016 Future Group acquired online furniture store FabFurnish for 20 crore rupees
20/04/2016 JK Tyres acquired Cavendish Industries for 2200 crore rupees

16. June- July 2016
Date M&A
14/06/2016 Tata Power signed agreement to acquire Welspun Renewables
14/06/2016 Microsoft signs agreement to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion
23/06/2016 Tech Mahindra Ltd acquires UK-based BIO Agency Ltd
06/07/2016 1mg Technologies acquires diagnostic labs aggregator Medd
06/07/2016 Aditya Birla Fashion acquires global clothing brand Forever 21
08/07/2016 Google acquires Paris-based startup Moodstocks
14/07/2016 IDFC Bank acquires micro lender Grama Vidiyal
17/07/2016
Terrapin 3 Acquisition Corporation acquires Yatra Online for $218
mn
19/07/2016 Softbank to acquire ARM Holdings for $32 billion
26/07/2016 Flipkart acquires online fashion portal Jabong

17. Aug- Sept 2016
Date M&A
17/08/2016 Unilever Plc acquires Swedish firm Blueair
01/09/2016
Sony Pictures to acquire sports channels of Zee for 385
million US dollar