Power M&A deals for January 2019 total $418.8m in United States

Total power M&A deals worth $418.8m were announced in the United States during January 2019, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

The value marked a decrease of 76.58% over the previous month and a drop of 92.02% when compared with the last 12-month average of $5.25bn.

The United States held an 11.39% share of the global power M&A deal value that totalled $3.68bn in January 2019.

In terms of deal activity, the United States recorded 31 deals during January 2019, marking an increase of 14.81% over the previous month and a rise of 10.71% over the 12-month average.

The top announced M&A deal, as tracked by GlobalData, in January 2019 was Pentair’s $160m acquisition of Aquion.

The article considers only announced and completed deals from the GlobalData Financial Deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.