Team Members
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Lucía Martínez de la Escalera
Lucia Martinez de la Escalera Associate Director -
Isabel Romero
Isabel Romero Associate
Transactions
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Clearwater Advisers
Adviser to DIP on the acquisition of a majority stake in Acces Industrie
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Clearwater Advisers
Adviser to Initiative & Finance on the sale of Groupe Occipain (La Panetière) to Arterris, UI Investissement, and Crédit Mutuel Equity
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Clearwater Advisers
Adviser to Leadinfo on the sale of its remaining shares to team.blue
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Pages
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As China now emerges out of the crisis, the key questions from an economic viewpoint are just how deep and prolonged the global recession will be, and secondly what impact this will have on China’s own domestic recovery.
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This is a blog series on how international companies in China should be responding in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
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The first quarter of the year saw M&A activity in the automotive sector slightly increase compared to Q1 2021, with a total of 61 transactions completed.
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Global mid-market corporate finance house Clearwater International completed 64 M&A and 24 debt advisory transactions worth over €7.5bn, in the six months to September 2022.
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Clearwater International completed 149 transactions worth €11.6bn across its M&A and debt advisory teams in the first three quarters of 2021, an increase of over 77% in deal volume compared to the same period in 2020.
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The average European multiple has increased to 10.6x in Q2 2018, reversing the downward trend which started in Q3 2017. Multiples have increased in all regions with the exception of Benelux.
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Large pharma companies are under pressure from investors due to rising competition from generics and eroding top-line figures. Over the past year some 60% of deals in the pharma segment have been focused on boosting drug pipelines of large pharma companies.
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A strong performance in the second half of the year meant that any drop-off in activity was not as pronounced as was first feared, with 2020 deal value and volume falling by just 5% and 6% year-on-year, respectively. At 11x, average multiples paid in PE-backed transactions across Europe reached a new high in the final quarter of the year.
