Hein van Dam, Deloitte’s partner in charge financial advisory Balkan Region, believes the M&A market will start growing next year because the deals consultants are working on now will come to be completed.
“The M&A market is still at a turning point, after having
improved in the last quarter, but I expect it to start growing
again next year. In Romania, M&A activity has been influenced
by foreign direct investments. Global macroeconomic weaknesses have
clearly influenced traditional investors in Romania, so that
M&A activity has slowed down during al these years,” Hein van
Dam told ZF in an interview.
According to a recent ZF survey, the M&A market has shown some
signs of a revival in recent months, with ten deals totally worth
above 140m euros having been signed, three of which in just one
day, the first time since the onset of the crisis when so many
deals have been sealed in such a short period of time.
Lately, one of the dynamic fields in terms of M&A activity has
been that of private healthcare services. Energy has also been a
lively field.