Feb 2025 | Customer intelligence | Marketing Solutions

Download the latest M&A review for FY 2024

As a key partner to the M&A and equity capital markets, Experian publishes regular reports on M&A activity in the UK. This is compiled using data from Experian MarketIQ, which reveals new layers of market insight by combining our global M&A database with comprehensive Companies House data and our market leading business, financial and risk databases. The reports cover UK M&A activity with commentary on trends and values in the market plus regional advisor league tables.

Experian MarketIQ is the essential market intelligence platform for any organisation or professional involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or requiring direct access to comprehensive and high-quality business and financial data.

MarketIQ report thumbnailAfter a subdued opening, our new figures show a welcome upturn in UK M&A activity in 2024, with stabilizing interest rates and lower inflation fuelling an increase in strategic borrowing and deal volume accelerating as the year progressed.

Businesses pressed hard to finalise transactions ahead of October’s Budget and heightened activity across a wide range of key sectors and metrics culminated in recordbreaking deal volume in the final quarter. Meanwhile, a surge in high-value M&A continued throughout the year, with corporate bidders and private equity sponsors competing for top-tier assets, and we saw a string of public companies taken private in multi-billion pound transactions – along with numerous big-ticket strategic deals in the financial services and telecoms space.

Investment levels were also on the rise, especially in the UK’s booming technology sector, while on the sell-side, there were pleasing signs of stronger exit activity after a long lull. Looking forward, some uncertainties remain, and our initial figures suggest a relatively slow start to 2025. As ever, access to highquality deal data remains of key importance in driving informed decisions – and lasting value – in the M&A space.

Mergers and Acquisitions review – FY 2024

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