Every Acquisition Announced in 2021

All 16,930 M&A deals announced during 2021, sorted by deal value. Compare buyers, payment types, and prices across the full year.

16,930
Deals announced
$2233.3B
Total value
$800.8M
Avg deal
$51.1B
Largest deal
# Acquirer Acquired Date Type Price
1
Dewan Housing Finance
DHFL is a housing finance company that provides lower and middle income groups a…
2021-09-29 Acquisition $51.1B Deal →
2
Parnassus Investments
Parnassus Investments integrates comprehensive ESG evaluations with fundamental …
2021-07-06 Acquisition $47.0B Deal →
3
Interconexion Electrica
Interconexion Electrica operates businesses in electric power, roads, telecommun…
2021-01-27 Acquisition $36.7B Deal →
4
GECAS
GECAS is a commercial aircraft financing and leasing service provider company.
2021-03-10 Acquisition $30.0B Deal →
5
Afterpay
Afterpay allows shoppers to receive products immediately and pay in four simple …
2021-08-01 Acquisition $29.0B Deal →
6
Kansas City Southern
Kansas City Southern is a transportation holding company that provides domestic …
2021-03-21 Acquisition $29.0B Deal →
7
Cerner
Cerner is a supplier of healthcare information technology solutions, services, d…
2021-12-17 Acquisition $28.3B Deal →
8
Suez
Suez offers environmental services like waste and resource management, recycling…
2021-05-15 Acquisition $26.0B Deal →
9
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is a telecommunications company that provides Internet, tele…
2021-03-15 Acquisition $26.0B Deal →
10
Deutsche Wohnen
Deutsche Wohnen is a residential property company that manages and develops real…
2021-05-25 Acquisition $23.3B Deal →
11
Nuance Communications
Nuance Communications provides conversational AI innovations that bring intellig…
2021-04-12 Acquisition $19.7B Deal →
12
PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific
The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific offers CRO servic…
2021-04-15 Acquisition $17.4B Deal →
13
MGM Growth Properties
MGM Growth Properties is a real estate investment trust.
2021-08-04 Acquisition $17.2B Deal →
14
Athenahealth
Athenahealth is a provider of medical practice automation and claims management …
2021-11-22 Acquisition $17.0B Deal →
15
Bank of The West
Bank of The West provides a wide range of personal, commercial, wealth managemen…
2021-12-20 Acquisition $16.3B Deal →
16
CyrusOne
CyrusOne is a data center operator that offers colocation and peering services.
2021-11-15 Acquisition $15.0B Deal →
17
McAfee
McAfee is an online security company that provides virus alerts and analysis on …
2021-11-08 Lbo $14.0B Deal →
18
Afterpay
Afterpay allows shoppers to receive products immediately and pay in four simple …
2021-08-01 Acquisition $13.8B Deal →
19
Kirkland Lake Gold
Kirkland Lake Gold is a high-grade, low-cost gold mining and exploration company…
2021-09-28 Merge $13.5B Deal →
20
Inter Pipeline
Inter Pipeline is an energy infrastructure business that engages in the transpor…
2021-02-11 Acquisition $13.5B Deal →
21
Change Healthcare
Change Healthcare is a healthcare technology company that focuses on revenue and…
2021-01-06 Acquisition $13.0B Deal →
22
Proofpoint
Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solu…
2021-04-26 Lbo $12.3B Deal →
23
Intuit Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an email marketing and marketing automations platform used by busin…
2021-09-13 Acquisition $12.0B Deal →
24
PRA Health Sciences
PRA Health Sciences provides product development and data solution services to p…
2021-02-24 Acquisition $12.0B Deal →
25
Vifor Pharma
Vifor Pharma is a global pharmaceutical company that researches, develops, produ…
2021-12-14 Acquisition $11.7B Deal →
26
Acceleron Pharma
Acceleron is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in developing, manufacturing an…
2021-09-30 Acquisition $11.5B Deal →
27
VEREIT, Inc.
VEREIT, Inc. is a real estate operating company which owns single-tenant commerc…
2021-04-29 Acquisition $11.0B Deal →
28
Athene
Athene Holding is a life insurance company that provides retirement savings prod…
2021-03-08 Lbo $11.0B Deal →
29
Western Power Distribution
Western Power Distribution is an electricity distribution company that ensures p…
2021-03-18 Acquisition $10.9B Deal →
30
Hill-Rom
Hill-Rom is an American company that provides medical technologies for the healt…
2021-09-02 Acquisition $10.5B Deal →
31
Coresite
CoreSite delivers flexible, scalable and customer-focused data center and interc…
2021-11-15 Acquisition $10.1B Deal →
32
Lundin Petroleum
Lundin Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company w…
2021-12-21 Acquisition $10.0B Deal →
33
QTS Realty Trust
QTS Realty Trust is a technology infrastructure company providing data center fa…
2021-06-07 Acquisition $10.0B Deal →
34
Aldevron
Aldevron is a biological development and manufacturing organization specializing…
2021-06-17 Acquisition $9.6B Deal →
35
GlobalLogic
GlobalLogic is a product development services company that specializes in chip-t…
2021-03-31 Acquisition $9.6B Deal →
36
Morrisons
Morrisons is a retailer that specializes in supermarket chain management in the …
2021-10-03 Acquisition $9.5B Deal →
37
PartnerRe
PartnerRe is a holding company for its international reinsurance group.
2021-10-29 Acquisition $9.0B Deal →
38
Meggitt
Meggitt is an aerospace company that specializes in components and subsystems fo…
2021-08-02 Acquisition $8.8B Deal →
39
Morrisons Supermarkets
Morrisons Supermarkets is a online supermarket company that offers food and groc…
2021-07-06 Acquisition $8.7B Deal →
40
Avast
Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threa…
2021-07-15 Merge $8.6B Deal →
41
PAREXEL
PAREXEL is a biopharmaceutical services company that focuses on the development …
2021-07-02 Acquisition $8.5B Deal →
42
MGM Studios
MGM Studios is a media company that produces and distributes feature films and t…
2021-05-26 Acquisition $8.4B Deal →
43
Equans
multi-technical installation and maintenance services
2021-11-06 Acquisition $8.2B Deal →
44
Wolt
Wolt is a food delivery company specializing in real-time logistics optimization…
2021-11-09 Acquisition $8.1B Deal →
45
WestConnex
WestConnex are into transport infrastructural development projects.
2021-09-20 Acquisition $8.1B Deal →
46
Hella
Hella designs and manufactures lighting equipment for local and international ca…
2021-08-15 Acquisition $8.0B Deal →
47
MUFG Union Bank
MUFG is a multinational group that offers comprehensive and tailored financial s…
2021-09-21 Acquisition $8.0B Deal →
48
Teledyne FLIR
FLIR Systems designs, manufactures, and markets technology solutions that focus …
2021-01-04 Acquisition $8.0B Deal →
49
People's United Financial
People's United Financial is a diversified financial services company that offer…
2021-02-22 Acquisition $7.6B Deal →
50
Telxius
Telxius is a telecom infrastructure service providers composed of mobile telecom…
2021-06-02 Acquisition $7.6B Deal →