U.S. Investors Help Fuel Record Year for M&A Deals in Sweden

Two-way flows in deal volumes between the U.S. and Sweden are helping drive “a record year” for merger and acquisitions in the biggest Nordic nation, Bloomberg reports, citing a report by law firm Baker McKenzie.

The report notes that it was mainly investors from the U.S. who made acquisitions in Sweden, while the U.S. market was also the destination that was most attractive to Swedish companies when it came to cross-border M&A. 

In the first nine months of the year, U.S. investors completed 45 M&A deals worth $41.3 billion and Swedish investors completed 70 deals in the U.S. worth $24.6 billion. The single largest cross-border M&A deal in Sweden was a listing by Polestar Performance AB on Nasdaq through a merger with SPAC Gores Guggenheim. Read more

Total
0
Shares
Related Posts
Aurora Acquisition Corp.
Read More

Better.com’s Stock Tanks After SPAC Combination and Market Debut

Better.com’s boom in business, fueled by existing homeowners refinancing their mortgages, turned into a bust and the company began laying off workers in November 2021. It would continue to let go of workers throughout 2022 as it began to bleed cash and suffer from a number of high-profile missteps and bad publicity.