Ascential plc, the global specialist information company, today announces the acquisition of the entire share capital of WARC Limited for an initial cash consideration of £19.5m (subject to a normalised working capital adjustment), plus deferred consideration of £4.5m payable in 2019. The acquisition is expected to complete on 2 July 2018.
Press release: LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ipreo, a leading financial services solutions and data provider, for $1.855 billion from private equity funds managed by Blackstone and the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division.
Press release: HORSHAM, Pa., May 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Reed Tech, a LexisNexis® Legal & Professional company, today announced the acquisition of PatentSight GmbH, a provider of analytics solutions that help patent professionals gain valuable insight into the strength, quality and relative value of patents and patent portfolios. PatentSight will become a part of the LexisNexis IP division of Reed Tech.
IHS Markit has acquired a software and analytics provider for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives valuation to build out its existing derivatives data business. DeriveXperts specialises in daily and monthly calculations of assets traditionally seen as difficult to value, including equity derivatives, FX derivatives, interest rate derivatives and structured notes.
FPE Capital LLP (‘FPE’), a growth private equity investor in UK lower mid-market companies announces that it has completed the management buyout of IWSR, which owns and operates the world’s largest database on the beverage alcohol market. This buyout marks the third investment in FPE’s £100m maiden institutional fund announced in October 2017
Press release: NEW YORK, April 12, 2018 – Hearst announced today that it has purchased from Fimalac S.A. an additional 20 percent interest in global financial information services company Fitch Group, bringing Hearst’s equity interest to 100 percent. The transaction is valued at $2.8 billion. Hearst acquired its original interest in Fitch Group in 2006, and increased its holdings to 80 percent in 2015.
Press release: Following the announcement, in November 2017, of a process being under way to dispose of EDR, the US property information business, DMGT announces that a sale has been agreed. Silver Lake Partners and Battery Ventures, two leading private equity investors with experience in growing technology, data and software businesses and investing in evolving business models, will acquire EDR for $205 million
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (LON:ERM) has acquired 100% of the business and assets of Extel, the group which runs the annual independent survey of quality across the European equities investment community, for an undisclosed sum from WeConvene.
Press Release: Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (“Euromoney”), the international business information and events group, today announces that it has reached a binding agreement to sell its Global Markets Intelligence Division (“GMID”), consisting of CEIC and EMIS, to a consortium of CITIC Capital Partners Management Limited (“CITIC Capital”), the private equity arm of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited, and Caixin Global Limited (“Caixin”), (“the Consortium”), for an equity value of $180.5 million
Press release: Infopro Digital announces agreement to enter into the acquisition of DOCUgroup and accelerates its international expansion
RELX Group announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of ThreatMetrix, for a consideration of £580m payable in cash.
Thomson Reuters is in advanced discussions for a sale of part of its financial and risk business, its largest unit by revenues, to US private equity firm Blackstone. The company confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that it was considering a sale of a stake in the business to Blackstone but would retain an interest in the unit.
According to The Sunday Times Vladimir Peksa had agreed to sell Mintec, which he founded in 1982, to the private equity firm Synova Capital for an estimated £30m. The deal could be announced as early as this week.
Press release: Wilmington plc, the knowledge leader in Risk & Compliance, Professional, and Healthcare, announces it has reached an agreement to acquire the Interactive Medica S.L. group of companies for an initial consideration of €2.8m with an adjustment for working capital, payable on completion. IM comes with an estimated €0.6m of cash on completion with further deferred consideration of up to €1.6m subject to IM achieving revenue targets for the period to 31 December 2019. The consideration is to be funded from the Group’s existing debt facilities and the Acquisition is expected to complete by 31 January 2018.
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
Ascential has sold its MENA business intelligence arm MEED Media to business media and insight group GlobalData for $17.5m
Press release: Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (“Euromoney”), the international business-information and events group, announces today that it has acquired 100% of Seven Site Media Limited, trading as TowerXchange. Under Stock Exchange rules, this is a Class 3 transaction
Intellectual property and support services provider RWS Holdings announced on Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of Moravia US Holding Company and Moravia Lux Holding Company, which it describes as a “leading provider” of technology-enabled localisation services
