Mergermarket, an Acuris company, the leading provider of M&A data and intelligence, has published its 4Q19/2019 report with financial advisor league tables, which reveal that M&A activity in the Asia-Pacific region reached $565.3 billion across 3,735 deals last year; the lowest value since 2013 and smallest deal count since 2014.

Deal-making regained some momentum, however, in the fourth quarter ($165 billion across 1,049 deals), which was the largest quarterly value and deal count during 2019. Market share shrank to 20.4 per cent in 2018 to 17 per cent in 2019.

China and Hong Kong (China) - the largest contributors to M&A activity in Asia - saw global market share shrink from 11.4 per cent to 8.8 per cent over the same period, while deal value plunged 27.6 per cent year-on-year to $294.5 billion and volume declined 17.2 per cent year-on-year to 1,735 transactions.

M&A activity in Vietnam in 2019 reached $4.544 billion across 47 deals, compared with $3.532 billion across 56 deals in 2018.

Top 5 deals in Vietnam in 2019: