Brazil, Russia, India and China, also known as BRIC countries or the BRICs, are among the fastest growing economies in the world and have excellent raw material deposits for the chemicals and related industries. By 2007 the BRICs' combined weight in the global economy exceeded 15 % of GDP (O'Neill, 2007). Along with their fast integration into the international trading scheme, many companies within the BRICs emerged as global players, thereby becoming competitive on a global scale. International investors have thus been attracted and driven up the number of takeovers of BRIC-enterprises. More recently, BRIC companies are themselves started acquiring enterprises abroad, e.g. in order to gain access to new markets, know-how, feedstock and/or to increase the economies of scale (Schmiele/Sofka, 2008). Chemicals are among the key industries within the BRIC economies and have been impacted both by the generally observable M&A momentum and by the chemicals specific global reorganization process. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of M&A deals and trends in the chemicals subsectors involving BRIC countries since the year 2000 ("Y2K").