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One major trend that continues is Chinese investment flowing into the United States.

Both transactions have varying motivations, but the common denominator is access to franchises and content that can be leveraged across the parent companies’ various business units.Ĭontent and digital transformation strategies have driven M&A activity so far in 2016, with no signs of slowing down - and thus providing clues about where we’ll see activity during the rest of the year. With Dalian Wanda Group’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Legendary Entertainment in January, this year’s media and entertainment M&A activity kicked off with a bang that hasn’t slowed down.Ĭomcast’s $3.8 billion acquisition of DreamWorks Animation just three months later continued the trend of content consolidation and IP aggregation.