Led by Novalpina Capital’s $356.18m private equity deal with Laboratoire X.O., France’s technology industry saw a drop of 16.00% in overall cross border deal activity during Q4 2020, when compared with the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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A total of 42 cross border deals worth $802.71m were announced in Q4 2020, compared with the last four-quarter average of 50 deals.

M&A was the leading category in the quarter with 19 cross border deals which accounted for 45.2% of all deals.

In second place was venture financing with 18 deals, followed by private equity with five transactions, respectively accounting for 42.9% and 11.9% of overall cross border deal activity in the France’s technology industry during the quarter.

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In terms of value of cross border deals, private equity was the leading deal category in France’s technology industry with total deals worth $420.39m, while venture financing and M&A deals totalled $341.76m and $38.79m, respectively.

France technology industry cross border deals in Q4 2020: Top deals

The top five technology industry cross border deals accounted for 87.4% of the overall value during Q4 2020.

The combined value of the top five technology cross border deals stood at $701.52m, against the overall value of $802.71m recorded for the quarter.

The top five technology industry cross border deals of Q4 2020 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Novalpina Capital’s $356.18m private equity deal with Laboratoire X.O.

2) The $160m venture financing of Sendinblue by BlackRock, BPI France, Bridgepoint Advisers and Partech Ventures

3) Intel Capital and Sociétés de Projets Industriels’ $94.2m venture financing of Aledia

4) The $64.21m private equity deal with Dalet by Long Path Partners

5) 360 Capital Digital Infrastructure Fund’s asset transaction with Etix Financial Holding America and Etix Financial Holding Europe for $26.93m.