Total technology industry cross border M&A deals worth $6.1bn were announced in Asia-Pacific in Q2 2022, led by MaxLinear’s $3.8bn acquisition of Silicon Motion Technology, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked an increase of 53.2% over the previous quarter and a rise of 33.04% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $4.57bn.

Asia-Pacific held a 27.90% share of the global technology industry cross border M&A deal value that totalled $21.79bn in Q2 2022. With a 22.26% share and deals worth $4.85bn, Taiwan was the top country in Asia-Pacific’s cross border M&A deal value across technology industry.

In terms of deal activity, Asia-Pacific recorded 86 cross border deals during Q2 2022, marking a decrease of 21.10% over the previous quarter and a drop of 23.39% over the last four-quarter average. India recorded 17 deals during the quarter.

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Asia-Pacific technology industry cross border M&A deals in Q2 2022: Top deals

The top five technology industry cross border M&A deals accounted for 94.3% of the overall value during Q2 2022.

The combined value of the top five cross border M&A deals stood at $5.73bn, against the overall value of $6.1bn recorded for the quarter.

The top five technology industry cross border deals of Q2 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) MaxLinear $3.8bn acquisition deal with Silicon Motion Technology

2) The $1.05bn acquisition of 45% stake in Costco-Taiwan by Costco Wholesale

3) Solera Holdings $442.97m acquisition deal with Infomedia

4) The $237.28m acquisition of Intouch by Singapore Telecommunications

5) Ascential $197m acquisition deal with Intrepid E-Commerce Services(Intrepid)