Total technology industry cross border deals worth $41.9bn were announced globally for September 2021, with the $5.17bn private equity deal with Visma Retail Software being the sector’s biggest investment, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked a decrease of 11.1% over the previous month of $47.15bn and a drop of 8.8% when compared with the last 12-month average of $45.99bn.

In terms of number of cross border deals, the sector saw a rise of 15.92% with 830 deals in September 2021 when compared to the last 12-month average of 716 deals.

In value terms, Europe led the activity with cross border deals worth $19.22bn in September 2021.

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technology industry cross border deals in September 2021: Top deals

The top five cross border deals accounted for 32.7% of the overall value during September 2021.

The combined value of the top five cross border deals stood at $13.69bn, against the overall value of $41.9bn recorded for the month.

The top five technology industry cross border deals of September 2021 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Aeternum Capital,Canada Pension Plan Investment Board,Cinven,General Atlantic,GIC,Government Pension Fund Norway,HgCapital,Intermediate Capital Group,Montagu Private Equity,TPG Capital,Vind,Visma Retail Software- Management Team and Warburg Pincus $5.17bn private equity deal with Visma Retail Software

2) The $3.1bn acquisition of NeuStar by TransUnion

3) Sinch $1.9bn acquisition deal with Pathwire

4) The $1.78bn acquisition of UPC Polska by Iliad

5) Vodacom Group $1.74bn acquisition deal for 10.9% stake in Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia