Global: M&A attractiveness indicator by country 2020

This statistic illustrates a global forecast of transactional attractiveness indicator for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) activity in 2020, by country. Using a weighted average score of key economic, financial and regulatory factors from 0 to 10 it can be seen that as of 2020 Hong Kong will be the most attractive country for potential M&A and IPO activity with a score of 9.2 out of 10.

Most attractive countries for merger and acquisitions (M&A)* and initial public offerings (IPO) activity forecast worldwide in 2020**

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Release date

2019

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

* also valued for attractiveness for initial public offerings (IPOs).
** Forecasts

The source added the following methodology "our Transaction Attractiveness Indicator, which rates the attractiveness of a country’s environment for M&A and IPO activity on a scale from 0 to 10. The score is based on a weighted average of 10 key economic, financial and regulatory factors that are typically associated with higher M&A and IPO activity. Key factors include the country’s economic growth, stock market size, size of the economy, openness to trade, sovereign credit risk, political stability, ease of doing business, legal structure, freedom to trade, and business regulation.

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