The year 2020 was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the Swiss private banking sector still got off relatively lightly compared to other industries. Thanks to the quick recovery of global markets, Swiss private banks could broadly sustain their assets under management (AuM) base and, as such, worse consequences could be prevented.
Despite differences from sector to sector, M&A activity in the energy, utilities and resources (EU&R) sectors continued to increase in the first half of 2021.
Recovery in the industrial manufacturing and automotive (IM&A) sectors will centre on dealmaking. Now that the uncertainty of 2020 has given way to a clearer view of future demand, with better vaccination rates and eased COVID restrictions boosting economic optimism, many companies have overhauled their strategies and are seeking to use mergers and acquisitions to realign their portfolios to value creation.
The first six months of 2021 saw record-high M&A activity in the technology, media and telecommunications space fuelled by abundant supplies of capital, initial public offerings of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and venture capital funding.
Mergers and acquisitions in the financial services (FS) industry continue to boom as players compete for strategic market advantage – with the focus on transformation.
As described in previous M&A insights, three main themes continue to drive M&A in the consumer, retail and leisure markets: constant redefinition of the core, buying into the new rule breakers, and building in super-resilience.
The financial sector in Switzerland faces significant transformational forces and challenges. This whitepaper gives insights into our findings and provides action guidelines for your own strategy.
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The COVID-19 experience has been a stark reminder that while meeting the expectations of shareholders is important, it’s only one aspect of the role businesses play. How do business leaders adapt to an environment where an increasingly wide and more diverse set of stakeholders has a concrete influence on the way value is created, protected and sustained? Claude Fuhrer and Christophe Bourgoin touch on some of the changes and their implications for business leaders.
Interested in developments in the Swiss private equity market? Read the blogpost from Sascha Beer, PwC Switzerland’s new Private Equity M&A Leader, to find out about the current prospects.
Recover, reconfigure, and realign with new values: M&A prospects in industrial manufacturing and automotive
