- In 2021 Digital Commerce M&A market deal volumes grew 34 per cent yr on yr
- $400 billion in disclosed transaction worth for 2021
- Buyers and acquirers favouring e-commerce software program; media, social and gaming; meals supply; and the ‘circular economy’
London, UK – 25 January 2022. Hampleton Companions’ Digital Commerce M&A report reveals that sector M&A progress is at all-time excessive. The sector signed over 2,317 offers in 2021, a 34 per cent improve on the 1,725 offers closed in 2020, and a 65 per cent improve on 2019 figures.
Hampleton’s report additionally highlights $400 billion in disclosed transaction worth throughout the sector in 2021, together with $140 billion within the second half of 2021 – 21 per cent of which may be attributed to the take-private of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) options supplier Afterpay by funds firm Sq. for round $30 billion.
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The trailing 30-month median digital commerce deal quantity reached a excessive $27 million, a leap from the $22 million determine seen in 2020.
Ralph Hübner, sector principal, stated: “We predict a white-hot first half of 2022 in digital commerce M&A, as many transactions have been in preparation since last year.
“M&A and fundraising activity across all segments of the digital commerce space continues to be propelled by the great shift online, with increased appetite from financial sponsors, be it from the VC or the PE/growth space. Investors are eager to back digital commerce software and infrastructure and help fund the mammoth business of e-commerce brands.”
Hampleton Companions’ Digital Commerce M&A Market report highlights how the boundaries between sector segments are persevering with to blur and analyses market tendencies, success tales, fundraising and M&A offers to supply a sensible portrayal of Digital Commerce M&A in a post-Covid world, with a spotlight on the second half of 2021. It covers the intersection of web providers & portals; online retail; media, social & gaming; companies & service suppliers and digital commerce software program; plus e-food and the round financial system.
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Hampleton Companions’ Digital Commerce M&A Report makes use of information and knowledge from the 451 Analysis database (www.451research.com), and S&P CapitalQ. Sources cited embody Bloomberg, McKinsey & Firm, TechCrunch, and MarketplacePulse.
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