With the help of numerous mergers involving major brands, big businesses got even bigger in 2016. According to fortune.com, the average merger or acquisition in 2016 was around $104.2 million which was greater than the $77.1 million average deals between 2000 and 2014! Although no merger in 2016 could break the all-time Top 10 list of M&A deals, these deals still have “industry-shaking consequences” because of the major brands involved. We saw mergers between AT&T and TimeWarner, Microsoft and LinkedIn, Shire and Baxalta, and Sunoco Logistics and Energy Transfer Partners, St. Jude Medical and Abbott Laboratories just to name a few.
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Scroll below to view the top 5 largest M&A deals of 2016!
