Media M&A: largest global deals in 2021

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A. Guttmann,
Mar 20, 2023
The largest M&A deal made in the media industry in 2021 was the acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T made by Discovery. The value of that deal surpassed 40 billion U.S. dollars. The next largest media related deal in 2021 was five times smaller - at a price of 8.45 billion dollars Amazon became the owner of MGM.

Value of the largest merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the media industry worldwide in 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars)

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December 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2021

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deals disclosed; not all were completed as of December 2021

Supplementary notes

* The source estimates the figure between 2.7 and 3 billion U.S. dollars.
** The source displays the figure as 1+ billion U.S. dollars.

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