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2 weeks ago | 
ionanalytics.com | Laura Larghi |Lucy Chapman
News (Intelligence) Veltris is in talks with acquisition candidates and aims to close three to five add-on deals within the next 18 months, CEO Hiral Chandrana said. Backed by Trive Capital and BayLink Capital, the Milpitas, California-headquartered company provides digital product engineering services in the healthcare, communications and manufacturing sectors.
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1 month ago | 
ionanalytics.com | Laura Larghi |Lucy Chapman
News (Intelligence) ZEDEDA, a specialist in edge management and orchestration, is interested in strategic investors to accelerate its expansion in new verticals and geographies, founder and CEO Said Ouissal told Mergermarket. The goal is to strengthen the company’s presence in the sectors of telecommunications, especially, satellite, and healthcare this year and in robotics next year, the CEO said.
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2 months ago | 
ionanalytics.com | Taku Dzimwasha |Raj Saiya |Lucy Chapman
Data Insight Sector’s defensive nature attracts investors amid market volatilityFollow-ons to drive healthcare ECM volumes, with Haleon and Galderma stake sales expectedHealthcare ECM volumes in EMEA reached their highest levels in a decade last year, with the IPO of Galderma Group AG [SIX:GALD] and subsequent stake sales in the firm, along with selldowns in Haleon [LON:HLN], lifting deal volumes to USD 23.1bn in 2024, according to Dealogic data.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
ionanalytics.com | Luuk de Klein |Tono Gil |John West |Lucy Chapman
The sudden replacement of Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Chair Markus Bokkerink as part of the UK government’s “growth agenda” has taken the antitrust community by surprise, and raises questions as to how the CMA may change its regulatory approach.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
ionanalytics.com | Christel Thunell |Lucy Chapman
News (Intelligence) BioMerieux [EPA:BIM], a French in vitro diagnostics company, is keen to make more acquisitions and has financial headroom of EUR 3bn-EUR 4bn for M&A, CEO Pierre Boulud said. The EUR 12.9bn market-cap company has a low debt level and is cashflow generating, so it can finance acquisitions relatively easily, Boulud told this news service on the sidelines of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco last week.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
ionanalytics.com | John West |Lucy Chapman
News (Intelligence) Desmi, a Danish flow-technology company backed by One Equity Partners (OEP), is working with Carlsquare to undertake acquisitions of EUR 30m-EUR 150m, CEO Humphrey Lau has told Mergermarket. There is a “high sense of urgency” to transact, though Desmi has a 24-month window to complete its M&A plans, Lau added. Its hunt is largely focused on US and European targets, he said.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
ionanalytics.com | Gabriele Rutkauskaite |Lucy Chapman
News (Intelligence) Mayfair Equity Partners “would love to invest in the beauty and personal care category again” following its sale of haircare brand Tangle Teezer, its co-founder and Partner Bertie Aykroyd said. The firm will continue to invest in such high-quality British consumer brands with strong potential for international expansion, leveraging its expertise to drive growth.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
ionanalytics.com | Rupert Cocke |Samantha Shaji |Lucy Chapman
The following Dealspeak reviews M&A activity for EMEA. For the global M&A highlights, please click here. European dealmakers expect a busy 2025 with easing financial conditions expected to provide a further boost to sponsor activity across most sectors and geographies, according to Mergermarket’s Trendspotter series*.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Taku Dzimwasha |Raj Saiya |Lucy Chapman
Data Insight News that Apotea, Sweden’s largest online pharmacy, aims to launch an initial public offering (IPO) of the company’s ordinary shares on Nasdaq Stockholm in the coming weeks provided welcome relief for the beleaguered Nordics IPO market. It comes after a sluggish year for Nordic listings—which includes Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
ionanalytics.com | Lucy Chapman |John West |Arezki Yaiche |Luuk de Klein
News (Intelligence) Defensive M&A to maintain market access across trading blocsMixed views on scale of possible EU-China rapprochementChinese EV production, tech transfer in EU expected to growGlobal dealmakers have been remarkably optimistic since the US presidential election result, which returns Donald Trump to the White House.
