18 February 2023•
More than half of the 140 completed transactions reported values.
78 transactions accounted for ~US$ 5.5 billion, averaging US$ 70 million per transaction.
The average is primarily driven upward by transactions in 2017, where the average transaction value was US$ 172 million.
All other years have seen average transactions values of US$ 60 million or below each year thereafter.
Transaction values drastically dropped more than half in 2020, with a slight rebound in 2021. 2019, however saw a massive jump in value by more than 100% from 2018, due to Alghanim Industries’ acquisition of Gulf Bank KSCP for ~US$ 500 million, alone contributing for approximately 44% the transaction value in 2019.
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