Mergers and acquisitions increase

Ireland has accounted for 14.6% of all European merger, acquisition and equity investment activity in value terms to date, this year, nearly 10% more than for the whole of 2013.

As expected, Ireland’s continued economic recovery and its credit rating improvement to investment grade has spurred merger and acquisition & growth during 2014.

Figures published yesterday from information services company Experian show 259 Irish company-related deals were carried out during the first nine months of this year. That marked a 37% rise on the same period last year.