Auri Aittokallio
Assistant Editor, Head of Nordics at Mergermarket
Financial journalist covering the Nordics and European TMT. Fluent Finglish speaker and an irregular tweeter. Comfortable in a foreign land I now call home.
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1 month ago |
ionanalytics.com | Taku Dzimwasha |Auri Aittokallio |Raj Saiya |Lloyd Vassell
Swedish investment company Roko AB’s [STO:ROKO] IPO serves as a much-needed boost for Nordic ECM, after the worst start to the year for volumes since 2019. The listing, valued at SEK 5.3bn (USD 525.54m), was the largest in Sweden since Volvo Cars [STO:VOLCAR-B] listed in 2021. The IPO has lifted ECM volumes in the Nordics – covering Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland – to USD 1.9bn in 2025 YTD.
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2 months ago |
ionanalytics.com | Auri Aittokallio |Lloyd Vassell
The combination of rising defence budgets in Europe and heightened global geopolitical tensions provides a backdrop for sponsor interest in the region’s spacetech firms. Bridgepoint led the way last year with the acquisition of Danish anti-drone player MyDefence, which uses satellite-enabled comms. The private equity firm flagged plans to support the company’s research and development (R&D) and expand its production.
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Jan 20, 2025 |
ionanalytics.com | Auri Aittokallio |Izaz Ansari |Lloyd Vassell
Dealmaking in the European spacetech sector is set to skyrocket as a result of the combination of geopolitical tensions and a growing emphasis on defence budgets. Europe finds itself between China and the US, two superpowers engaging in competitive stargazing, while Russia continues to pose a threat to the region’s stability through hybrid warfare tactics.
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Aug 19, 2024 |
ionanalytics.com | Auri Aittokallio |Santosh Shetty |Lloyd Vassell
While Nordics dealmakers’ days in the holiday sun may be over, the bright spells are set to continue as they return to work thanks to an M&A pipeline expected to raise the temperature moving into the autumn. The market is still in a seasonal lull, with some parts of the region yet to see their children return to school. But announcements of several highly anticipated deals over the summer should deliver a healthy gust of wind to dealmakers’ sails.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
ionanalytics.com | Auri Aittokallio |Lucy Chapman
Summa Equity is considering launching a process to sell its Norwegian digital document platform provider Documaster in the last quarter of this year, Gisle Gluck Evensen, partner at the sponsor, told Mergermarket. “We have been going through a transformation [of the company] and would need to finalize this before launching an exit process,” Evensen said.
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