A cheat sheet of M&As in Southeast Asia

Since 2006, Tech in Asia has been keeping tabs on Southeast Asia’s M&A landscape. As landmark purchases and M&A deal counts soar to new heights, we’ve put together this piece to help you keep track of the latest trends and milestones.

Before we dive in, here are a couple of caveats about the data:

• M&A transactions vary significantly in structure. Some deals may be made under irregular circumstances.
• All charts and visuals in this piece refer only to publicly disclosed M&A deals.
• In our calculations of mean and median, we have excluded publicly disclosed M&A deals with unknown deal sizes.

SEA’s M&A landscape at a glance

Starting with a broad overview of M&A activity in Southeast Asia, here’s how the overall deal count and deal size in the region have changed over time.

The mean and median deal sizes also reveal trends in the distribution of M&A deals sizes in the region over time.

A look at SEA’s M&A leaderboards

While most of Southeast Asia’s M&A check sizes remain small, deals are made across an increasingly diverse range of industries. Below are the top five verticals that have seen the most M&A activity.

In terms of M&As by country, here’s how regional players are shaping up against each other.

Diving deeper, here are the region’s top 10 acquirers to date.