{"id":22261,"date":"2024-07-05T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiersholm.no\/?post_type=publication&p=21074"},"modified":"2025-03-12T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T14:26:36","slug":"mid-year-update-2024-ma-and-ipo-trends-and-insights-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/wiersholm.no\/en\/publications\/mid-year-update-2024-ma-and-ipo-trends-and-insights-in-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-year update 2024: M&A and IPO trends and insights in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mid-year update 2024: M&A and IPO trends and insights in Norway<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Wiersholm’s Corporate team have taken a closer look at how M&A transactions and IPOs are faring in Norway in the first half of 2024. <\/p>\n\n

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

In our latest and 15th<\/sup> edition of the Wiersholm M&A and IPO trend report, we explore the Norwegian transaction landscape and M&A and IPO prospects for the period ahead. The transactional year of 2023 was slow due to uncertainty in many areas, heavily influenced by geopolitical and macroeconomic factors, capital access and valuations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first half of 2024 has shown positive trends with an uptick in deal volumes within M&A, which hopefully means that someone has turned up the heat. The demand side is increasing, with investors jumping off the fence. The supply of companies with high quality assets for sale is increasing. At the same time, price expectations for sellers and buyers appear to be more aligned than in the recent past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uncertainty will likely continue to dominate the M&A activity levels and may be further fueled by geopolitical instability, results of upcoming elections and continued high inflation and interest levels. We remain optimistic that investors have become accustomed to these uncertainties and that the current positive trend in the M&A levels will continue throughout the remainder of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Norwegian IPO market remains on hold, with very few IPOs coming to market and equally few IPO processes being initiated, and thus expected to come to market in the next six months. The lack of successful IPOs and a relatively poor performance in the secondary market appear to have had an adverse effect on anchor investors\u2019 appetite for IPOs across Northern Europe. This, combined with upcoming fall elections, is a likely \u201cchill-pill\u201d for owners and issuers planning for IPOs with no hurry to exit. The IPO market is not expected to improve until 2025 (or later).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full report here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In brief:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n