Europe's power sector sees a rise of 2.03% in overall deal activity during Q4 2018, when compared to four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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A total of 402 deals worth $51.55bn were announced for the region during Q4 2018, against the four-quarter average of 400 deals.

Of all the deal types, M&A saw most activity in Q4 2018 with 319, representing a 79.35% share for the region.

In second place was venture financing with 48 deals, followed by private equity deals with 35 transactions, respectively capturing 11.94% and 8.71% share of the overall deal activity for the month.

In terms of value of deals, M&A led Europe's power market with $49.22bn, while private equity and venture financing deals clocked $1.84bn and $492.51m, respectively.

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The top announced deal, as tracked by GlobalData, in Q4 2018 was Brookfield Business Partners , Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec's $13.2bn asset transaction with Johnson Controls International.

The article considers only announced and completed deals from the GlobalData Financial Deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.