All 11,435 M&A deals announced during 2016, sorted by deal value. Compare buyers, payment types, and prices across the full year.
| # | Acquirer | Acquired | Date | Type | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
WarnerMedia
Time Warner is a media and entertainment company that creates, packages, and del…
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2016-10-22 | Merge | $85.4B | Deal → | |
| 2 |
Monsanto
Monsanto is an agriculture company that offers agricultural products.
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2016-05-23 | Acquisition | $62.5B | Deal → | |
| 3 |
Syngenta
Syngenta is an agriculture company provides products and solutions to help farme…
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2016-02-04 | Acquisition | $43.0B | Deal → | |
| 4 |
Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications is an international communications company developing IP …
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2016-10-31 | Acquisition | $34.0B | Deal → | |
| 5 |
Arm Holdings
Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, an…
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2016-07-18 | Acquisition | $32.2B | Deal → | |
| 6 |
Baxalta
Baxalta Incorporated (NYSE: BXLT) is a $6 billion global biopharmaceutical leade…
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2016-01-11 | Acquisition | $32.0B | Deal → | |
| 7 |
Spectra Energy
Spectra Energy Corp, a FORTUNE 500 company, is one of North America’s leading pi…
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2016-09-06 | Lbo | $28.0B | Deal → | |
| 8 |
LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows users to create business …
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2016-06-13 | Acquisition | $26.2B | Deal → | |
| 9 |
St. Jude Medical
St. Jude Medical is a medical device company that manufactures remote monitoring…
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2016-04-28 | Acquisition | $25.0B | Deal → | |
| 10 |
Energy Transfer Partners
Energy Transfer owns and operates a platform of crude oil, natural gas, and natu…
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2016-11-21 | Acquisition | $21.0B | Deal → | |
| 11 |
Linear Technology
Linear Technology Corporation has built a reputation as the premier analog semic…
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2016-07-26 | Acquisition | $14.8B | Deal → | |
| 12 |
Sky UK
Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, …
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2016-12-09 | Acquisition | $14.1B | Deal → | |
| 13 |
Medivation
Medivation, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the rapid development…
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2016-08-22 | Acquisition | $14.0B | Deal → | |
| 14 |
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P&G Specialty Beauty Business
P&G Specialty Beauty Business includes fragrance, color cosmetics, salon profess…
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2016-10-03 | Merge | $12.5B | Deal → | |
| 15 |
WhiteWave Foods
The WhiteWave Foods Company engages in the manufacture, marketing, distribution,…
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2016-07-07 | Acquisition | $12.5B | Deal → | |
| 16 |
Westar Energy
Westar Energy provides safe, reliable electric energy to nearly 700000 Kansans.
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2016-05-31 | Acquisition | $12.2B | Deal → | |
| 17 |
Valspar
Valspar is a manufacturer and distributor of paints and coatings materials.
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2016-03-20 | Acquisition | $11.3B | Deal → | |
| 18 |
ITC Holdings
ITC is working to limit energy losses by upgrading the nation's transmission gri…
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2016-02-09 | Acquisition | $11.3B | Deal → | |
| 19 |
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Verizon Wireline Operations
Verizon Wireline Operations provides services to residential, commercial and who…
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2016-04-01 | Acquisition | $10.5B | Deal → | |
| 20 |
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CIT Group - aircraft leasing business
CIT Group - aircraft leasing business provides aircraft leasing and lease manage…
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2016-10-07 | Acquisition | $10.3B | Deal → | |
| 21 |
Columbia Pipeline Group
Columbia Pipeline Group is interstate pipeline, gathering and processing.
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2016-03-17 | Acquisition | $10.2B | Deal → | |
| 22 |
NetSuite
NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business application…
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2016-07-28 | Acquisition | $9.3B | Deal → | |
| 23 |
Quintiles
Quintiles is a provider of biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourc…
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2016-05-03 | Acquisition | $9.0B | Deal → | |
| 24 |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Software harnesses the power of convergence, virtuali…
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2016-09-08 | Acquisition | $8.8B | Deal → | |
| 25 |
B/E Aerospace
B/E Aerospace is the worldwide leading manufacturer of aircraft passenger cabin …
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2016-10-23 | Acquisition | $8.6B | Deal → | |
| 26 |
Supercell
Supercell is a video game development company for tablets and smart phones.
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2016-06-21 | Acquisition | $8.6B | Deal → | |
| 27 |
Harman
Harman designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, …
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2016-11-14 | Acquisition | $8.0B | Deal → | |
| 28 |
Port of Melbourne
Port of Melbourne is Australasia’s largest maritime hub for containerized, autom…
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2016-09-19 | Acquisition | $7.3B | Deal → | |
| 29 |
Meda
Meda AB is an international specialty pharmaceutical company, headquartered in S…
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2016-02-10 | Acquisition | $7.2B | Deal → | |
| 30 |
Uber China
Uber China is a Chinese unit of Uber, a mobile app connecting passengers with dr…
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2016-08-01 | Acquisition | $7.0B | Deal → | |
| 31 |
ADT
ADT is a security company that provides smart home solutions and business securi…
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2016-02-16 | Lbo | $7.0B | Deal → | |
| 32 |
Quironsalud
Quironsalud is a private healthcare operator.
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2016-09-06 | Acquisition | $6.4B | Deal → | |
| 33 |
Western Refining
Western Refining independent oil refiner and marketer,
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2016-11-17 | Acquisition | $6.4B | Deal → | |
| 34 |
Endurance Specialty Holdings
Endurance Specialty Holdings is a global specialty provider of insurance and rei…
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2016-10-04 | Acquisition | $6.3B | Deal → | |
| 35 |
TeamHealth
Team Health is a healthcare organization providing administrative support and ma…
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2016-10-31 | Lbo | $6.1B | Deal → | |
| 36 |
Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro is a provider of technology products and supply chain management se…
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2016-02-17 | Acquisition | $6.0B | Deal → | |
| 37 |
Toshiba Medical Systems
Toshiba Medical Systems is the Global supplier of Medical Imaging.
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2016-12-19 | Acquisition | $5.9B | Deal → | |
| 38 |
Brocade Communications Systems
Brocade Communications Systems Brocade offers data center networking solutions t…
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2016-11-02 | — | $5.9B | Deal → | |
| 39 |
Stemcentrx
Stemcentrx provides pharmaceutical services.
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2016-04-28 | Acquisition | $5.8B | Deal → | |
| 40 |
Capsugel
Capsugel develops and manufactures capsule-based dosage solutions used in pharma…
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2016-12-12 | Acquisition | $5.5B | Deal → | |
| 41 |
Cabela's
Cabelas is the nation’s largest direct marketer, and a leading specialty retaile…
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2016-10-03 | Acquisition | $5.5B | Deal → | |
| 42 |
GE Appliances
General Electric Appliances, a subsidiary of General Electric, develops smart gr…
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2016-01-15 | Acquisition | $5.4B | Deal → | |
| 43 |
Alere
Alere provides diagnostics and health management solutions for infectious, heart…
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2016-02-02 | Acquisition | $5.3B | Deal → | |
| 44 |
Talen Energy
Talen Energy operates as an energy and power generation and marketing company.
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2016-06-03 | Acquisition | $5.2B | Deal → | |
| 45 |
Anacor Pharmaceutical
Anacor Pharmaceutical is a biopharmaceutical company developing small-molecule t…
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2016-05-16 | Acquisition | $5.2B | Deal → | |
| 46 |
TNT Express
TNT Express is one of the world's largest express delivery companies with a glob…
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2016-04-07 | Acquisition | $5.0B | Deal → | |
| 47 |
Bluecoat
Blue Coat provides advanced enterprise security.
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2016-06-13 | Acquisition | $4.7B | Deal → | |
| 48 |
Equity One
Equity One, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT), which owns, manages, …
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2016-11-14 | Merge | $4.6B | Deal → | |
| 49 |
Leidos Cyber
Leidos Cyber secures industrial control systems and critical infrastructure for …
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2016-08-16 | Acquisition | $4.6B | Deal → | |
| 50 |
GE Money Bank
GE Money Bank is a French consumer credit business.
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2016-06-23 | Acquisition | $4.6B | Deal → |