Deals

UBM has taken its final step from magazine publisher to events company after striking a deal to sell its last major publication, the construction industry bible Building

Analysts for Citigroup wrote in a research note they believe there’s a 40% chance Apple will buy Netflix with the money it repatriates following the passage of corporate tax reform.

Apple could potentially repatriate hundreds of billions of dollars, giving it plenty of wiggle room for a major acquisition like Netflix.

Prysm Group has announced the acquisition of waste management trade show RWM from Ascential to boost its environmental division. RWM, in partnership with recycling, energy, water and waste management show CIWM, will complement existing Prysm events including The European Contamination Expo Series, Hazardous Waste Expo, Land Remediation Expo, The Flood Expo and The Marine & Coastal Civil Engineering Expo

Press release: Parallel Media Group (PMG) has conditionally agreed to acquire Brick Live and Parallel Live • Deal will fuel expansion of BRICKLIVE into Europe, the Far East and the Americas • Enlarged group to be renamed Live Company Group• BRICKLIVE events ran simultaneously across three continents last week 29 November 2017: Parallel Media Group plc today announces that it has conditionally agreed to acquire Brick Live and Parallel Live, to create a new live entertainment events company – Live Company Group – and bring BRICKLIVE to London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The acquisition of the two companies and of partners’ shares in Brick Live Far East, are valued at £10m, and PMG is raising £1.3m through a share placing at 30p. On completion, the enlarged group will have a market value of £14.5m. To reflect the enlarged group’s new business focus it will be renamed Live Company Group plc

Press Release: In the fourth and final deal of 2017, Mark Allen Group (MAG) has acquired the shares of Miles Publishing Limited (MPL) from its owner, Miles Bossom.

MPL, which has been based in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, comprises two core products; the market leading brand, Comms Business, and its related event, Channel Live. In future, the company will be based in MA Business’ offices in Dartford, Kent

B2B media company Ascential has sold its MENA business intelligence arm MEED Media to business media and insight group GlobalData for $17.5m.

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Bowmark Capital sells Law Business Research to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners
Wed, 27/12/2017 – 11:25
Bowmark Capital has sold Law Business Research (LBR), a provider of research, news, data and insight on international business law and legal markets, to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP). Established in 1996, LBR creates essential and unique content spanning 120 jurisdictions across its brands, serving a client base that comprises major corporations, government agencies and the global legal industry.  It is a leading information provider in fields such as competition law, arbitration law, cross-border investigations and Latin American corporate law

Ascential has bought e-commerce analytics group Clavis Insight for up to $219m. Clavis, whose customers include the likes of P&G, Nestle, Unilever and L’Oreal, has proprietary technology which enables consumer product companies to track and optimise the performance of their products across hundreds of retailer websites and mobile commerce sites globally

Driverless cars means freeing up your hands and your attention, which in turns means more time to read glossy magazines. That is the logic behind Renault’s decision to buy a 40 per cent stake in Perdriel Group, the publishing house behind weekly business magazine Challenges

Press release: WPP announces that its wholly-owned marketing communications network, Ogilvy & Mather (Ogilvy), has acquired a majority stake in ARBA, a digital consultancy

Sale of 21st Century Fox assets includes stakes in Sky in the UK and Hollywood film studio as tycoon focuses on Fox News and newspapers

Disney acquires the 39 per cent of Sky currently owned by Fox and “full ownership” of the broadcaster if and when its ongoing takeover bid is completed, according to the terms of the deal

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has agreed to sell its entertainment assets to Disney in a $66bn (£49bn) deal that transforms his media empire by offloading a 39% stake in Sky

According to the FT: Walt Disney is closing in on the entertainment assets of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox in an all-share deal that stands to reshape Hollywood and the rapidly digitising global media industry. The deal, valuing the Fox assets at about $60bn including debt, could be announced as early as Thursday, according to people briefed on the negotiations.

Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of the Group, has announced the acquisition of Fitex India, the largest fitness and health event on the subcontinent

Ascential has sold its MENA business intelligence arm MEED Media to business media and insight group GlobalData for $17.5m

The Fox boss James Murdoch is reportedly being considered as a potential successor to Bob Iger, chief executive of Walt Disney, if the two companies reach agreement on a possible takeover.

Bubble Communications, the global PR, marketing and events agency, has acquired VOX National Events, the organiser and producer of the VOX Summit, VOX Awards and VOXMAS festive party

CloserStill Media, the London-based exhibition and conference organiser, has announced the acquisition of one of Europe’s leading education and learning conference and exhibitions – Online Educa Berlin (OEB) – from ICWE GMbH for an undisclosed sum

Press release: Leading international events company dmg events Middle East, Asia & Africa has acquired boutique business forum organiser Atticus Events. Focused specifically on the interior design of luxury hotels, HI Design organises specialist business meetings between key buyers from currently active hotel projects and a curated selection of International FF&E (Furniture, fixtures and equipment) suppliers. With each edition held in a different five star hotel location, HI Design events are currently run annually in Europe, Asia and MEA.