Mergers and Acquisitions in Selected Frontier Markets of Asia

Abstract

This paper aims to provide contemporary and comparative information on mergers and acquisition activities. The findings have shown that Vietnam is very active in mergers and acquisitions activities, for instance in Vietnam 2946 transactions were announced, and 2114 completed in the last decade. Furthermore, Vietnam has a distinctive element of merging local firms; Out of top 20 deals, in 18 transactions target firms and acquirer both were from Vietnam. On the other hand, Sri Lanka has the highest percentage of completed MA however, mergers and acquisition have had no significant impact on the profitability of Pakistan companies. DOI: 10.15408/sjie.v7i1.6074