(MENAFN) Qatar crowned the Mergers and Acquisitions charts in the Middle East over the January-Sept period, thus its abroad acquisitions represented 55 percent of Middle Eastern outbound M&A activity.
Based on the latest reports, the overall amount of outbound deals from the region for the first nine months of the year totaled USD17.2b and Qatar's share was more than half of it.
China, Germany and UK were the most targeted countries in terms of M&A deals for cited period, and with 29 percent, China was the most targeted nation, followed by Germany and UK.
Additionally, In spite of the quarterly fall of equity capital markets (ECMs), Middle Eastern ECM improved 6 percent year-on-year to reach USD5.5b through the nine months to September of the current year.
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