BCG's latest report on M&A landscape in the emerging BRICS market-- a nice reading.




"Despite the current worldwide lull in mergers and acquisitions, there’snot much argument that emerging markets will remain a hotbed ofM&A activity for some time to come. In the forefront of emerging-market [size=10.000000pt]M&A are the BRICs—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—which collectivelyaccount for 60 percent of total deal value in emerging-market M&A activity.
[size=10.000000pt]Within the BRICs, markets are growing, consumers are gaining purchasingpower, and formerly protectionist economies are opening up to foreign in-vestment. At the same time, newly confident and ambitious BRIC-basedcompanies are racing to acquire assets in developed economies to achievegrowth and advance their global aspirations. The sheer scale of economicactivity ensures that the BRICs will continue to be a nexus for M&A.
[size=10.000000pt]This year’s M&A report—the ninth from BCG highlighting surprising aspectsof global M&A activity—turns the spotlight on the factors that make the dif-ference between success and failure in deal making in emerging markets.



The global M&A market remains in a deep freeze, and emergingmarkets are feeling the chill."