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