Where to go after the sale?
Posted by Brenon Daly on December 7, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly, Thejeswi Venkatesh In an effort to bolster its Smart Grid offering, Siemens AG reached earlier this week for eMeter, a company that the German giant had invested in three years ago. The sale comes after San Mateo, California-based eMeter had looked to raise a round of funding last summer, on top of [...]
A renaissance of PE interest in Renaissance
Posted by Brenon Daly on September 29, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly In 2010, PLATO Learning went private in a relatively straightforward process that took just two months from Thoma Bravo’s announcement of the leveraged buyout (LBO) of the online education vendor to the close of it. Now, privately held PLATO is drawing out – and making more expensive – the LBO of fellow [...]
A little something for your trouble
Posted by Brenon Daly on August 17, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Breaking up is hard to do. And it can be expensive, too. But as a pair of deals this week shows, the costs aren’t necessarily borne equally by the two sides in a planned transaction. In the higher-profile case, the market is buzzing that Google may be on the hook for a [...]
ACI looks to crash S1′s wedding
Posted by Brenon Daly on July 26, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Just a month after announcing its largest-ever acquisition, S1 Corp has found itself unexpectedly (and perhaps unwelcomely) on the other end of a potential transaction. The payments software maker agreed in late June to acquire Fundtech in a stock swap valued at $326m. On Tuesday, ACI Worldwide sought to play the spoiler [...]
Epiq’s expensive e-discovery deal
Posted by Brenon Daly on April 7, 2011
Contact: Brenon Daly Announcing the largest e-discovery deal in some three-and-a-half years, Epiq Systems said earlier this week that it will borrow $100m to acquire Encore Discovery Solutions, a service provider for law firms. (My colleague Nick Patience has the full details on the acquisition.) The rationale is fairly straightforward: Epiq wanted to shore up [...]
Ariba ‘mines’ for its latest deal
Posted by Brenon Daly on November 19, 2010
Contact: Brenon Daly After three years out of the market, Ariba returned to M&A on Thursday with the $150m purchase of Quadrem. Both the current deal and the previous one help bolster the supply-chain vendor’s offering in new markets. In the case of Procuri, which was acquired in September 2007, Ariba picked up a company [...]
No recession for mobile advertising M&A
Posted by admin on January 27, 2010
The vertical has not been hurt by the valuations decline. On the contrary, the past few months saw some of the richest deals for the sector yet. And with the segment poised to define mobile going forward, we believe there is much more to come.
Amex buys into the alternative online payments revolution
Posted by admin on December 9, 2009
The credit card giant’s acquisition of Revolution Money signals its desire for more of a presence in alternative online payments. We believe this is great news for an industry that to some extent is still struggling to gain relevance.
Cyber Monday’s here
Posted by admin on November 30, 2009
Following a busy weekend for the brick-and-mortar retailers, today is the online vendors’ turn. To mark the occasion, we note that dealmaking among the online-retail giants has continued to match historical M&A even through the recession, and see lots of potential deals to come.
Bets on casual games are paying off
Posted by admin on November 23, 2009
Electronic Arts’ game-changing acquisition of Playfish brings validity to the young niche games vertical. Will the consolidation continue?
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