CURRENT TRENDS AND PROSPECTS FOR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT THROUGH MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS IN THE WAR AND POST-WAR PERIODS

Abstract

This article highlights the results of the research on current trends and prospects of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the market of Ukraine as one of the strategies of business development in the immediate pre-war period and the first year of the war, attention is focused on identifying those branches of the Ukrainian economy that remain attractive to foreign and domestic companies in war conditions investors and will potentially maintain such a state in the nearest war and post-war periods. The importance of merger and acquisition agreements in the strategic development of business has been studied, the main motives and goals of merger and acquisition agreements for investors and investment recipients have been summarized, the problems for investors related to the implementation of mergers and acquisitions in Ukraine have been studied, the attractiveness criteria of the Ukrainian economic sector for implementation have been determined mergers and acquisitions, examined the industry structure of mergers and acquisitions in the nearest pre-war period, namely in 2021, to determine priority industries in peacetime, considered statistical data of mergers and acquisitions in 2022, highlighted potential planned mergers and acquisitions to be implemented in the near future, the largest 15 mergers and acquisitions are presented, it is established that the IT and telecommunications sector showed the greatest resistance to the consequences of the war, state policy measures are identified that can stimulate the revival of foreign and domestic investment in Ukrainian companies. On the basis of the conducted research, the most attractive sectors of the economy of Ukraine for foreign and domestic investors were determined, which showed the greatest resistance to the consequences of the war, as well as in which the revival of mergers and acquisitions is expected in the war and immediate post-war periods.