Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate restructuring are an important part of business.

More often than not they make big headlines across the globe and are often featured in General

Awareness section of exams like IIFT, SNAP and XAT. More often than not, the questions are based

on big deals that took place during the last 6 months to 1 year. When one of my students asked me

to send him a list of important deals from 2013, I told him to Google it. I was pretty sure that

someone would have made a list and the student was just being lazy. When he replied back saying

that he couldnt find one, to be honest I was mildly irritated.

Then I hit Google myself to find out some such list but unfortunately wasnt able to do so. There

were a few lists which were given by value but it doesnt work that way. I dont think that Perrigo

acquiring Elan for 8.6 B $ has a higher chance of being asked than Jeff Bezos (of Amazon) acquiring

Washington Post for 0.25 B $. So, I decided to create one, thinking it would hardly take 10 minutes.

Boy! I was wrong. It has taken me a lot longer than that and hopefully you will find useful. If you

have any suggestions to add to the list, please let me know via the comments section.

Year Purchaser Purchased Value

2011 Microsoft Skype 8.50 B $

2012 Microsoft Yammer 1.2 B $

2013 Microsoft Nokia Handset & Services Business 7.20 B $

2011 Google Motorola Mobility 9.8 B $

2012 Google Meebo, QuickOffice, Sparrow, VirusTotal, Viewdle, BufferBox

2013 Google Wavii, Makani Power, Waze, Bump,

Flutter

2013 Yahoo! Snip.it, Summly, Astrid, Qwiki, Rockmelt,

Bread 2013 Yahoo! Tumblr 1.1 B $

2012 Facebook Instagram 1 B $

2012 Facebook Tagtile, Lightbox, Face, Spool 2013 Naspers (Ibibo) RedBus 138 M $

2013 Unilever HUL 3.6 B $

2013 Softbank Sprint Corporation 21.60 B $

2013 Berkshire Hathaway H. J. Heinz Company 28.00 B $

2013 Jeff Bezos (Amazon) Washington Post 250 M $