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Säkra in talks to acquire, anticipates five more deals by year-end

Nov 7, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Auri Aittokallio |Lucy Chapman

Interviews By Auri Aittokallio Could hire advisers for non-Swedish deals Has no upper limit on target size Targets SEK 1bn revenue before year-end Swedish insurance broker and financial adviser Säkra is in talks with targets across the Nordics and expects to make up to five more acquisitions by year-end, CEO Eva Pantzar Waage told Mergermarket. The Cinven-backed company is conducting due diligence on several companies and has a long list of other potential acquisition targets, she added. The...
French tech firms continue to target expansion to US

Oct 31, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Lucy Chapman |Myriam Mariotte |Santosh Shetty

Interviews By Myriam Mariotte, Santosh Shetty France aims for US expansion coupled with local HQ – Consul New York and Boston top new French tech destinations Vantiva remains active with a large, recent deal in the US French tech companies continue to follow the American dream despite a downturn in valuations, with deals likely to follow in the wake of companies opening offices in New York and further afield. “We are particularly excited to see more and more French Tech companies expanding to...
Cross River Bank eyeing potential IPO in 2025

Oct 26, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Troy Hooper |Carlos Martinez

Interviews By Troy Hooper Cross River Bank is eyeing an initial public offering in 2025, President, Chairman and CEO Gilles Gade said this week on the sidelines of Money 20/20 in Las Vegas.
Salpa sees Bregal, Apheon head-to-head in second round

Oct 24, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Lucy Chapman |Micaela Osella |Cristiano Dalla Bona

Breaking news By Micaela Osella, Cristiano Dalla Bona Confirmatory offers expected around month-end, signing possible by Christmas Cobepa drops out of bidding Italian confectionery company Salpa Special Food is seeingbidders Bregal and Apheon go head-to-head in the second round of its sale process, six sources familiar with the situation told Mergermarket. Confirmatory offers are due between the end of October and the beginning of November, the sources said, and vendor Equinox intends to...
Fonecta in advanced sale process via Access Partners

Oct 17, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Auri Aittokallio |Lucy Chapman

Breaking news By Auri Aittokallio Finnish business-to-business (B2B) advertising services provider Fonecta is in an advanced sale process, three sources familiar with the situation said.
Cyanco exploring sale via Morgan Stanley

Oct 11, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Carlos Martinez |Bhavna Kaul |Georgina Barnard

Breaking news By Bhavna Kaul, Georgina Barnard Cyanco Holding Corporation, the Sugar Land, Texas-based producer of sodium cyanide, has mandated Morgan Stanley to explore a sale, five sources familiar with the situation said. The sale process is at an early stage, some of the sources said, noting that the seller is expected to conduct a narrow sale process. Financial materials have not been distributed to prospective suitors yet, the same sources said. The Cerberus Capital-backed chemicals...
Habyt will use part of its Series C to finance acquisitions

Oct 10, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Laura Larghi |Lucy Chapman

Private By Laura Larghi In talks to raise EUR 50m in debt financing Considers pre-IPO round in 2024 Habyt Group (Habyt), a German co-living services provider, will use part of its recently raised EUR 40m Series C round to finance acquisitions, founder and CEO Luca Bovone told Mergermarket. The company, which is in advanced talks with two acquisition candidates, one in North America and one in Asia, aims to close two deals in the next twelve months, Bovone said. Habyt aims to acquire 100% of...
Austin Private Equity Forum M&A Explorer: Pandemic-era growth can't fully insulate Texas from cooling macro environment

Oct 3, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Lucy Chapman |Rebecca Wenzel |Lucinda Guthrie |Joshua Armstrong

Conference coverage By Rebecca Wenzel, Lucinda Guthrie, Joshua Armstrong The Pipeline Explorer is a column discussing likely financial sponsor exit transactions based on Mergermarket’s Likely to Exit (LTE) predictive algorithm.Based ona number ofcriteria, the algorithm assignsa score to each exit opportunity, with a higher score corresponding to a higher likelihood for a transaction in the next 12 to 24 months. Find out more about LTE scores here. Of the 6,824 US-based sponsor-backed...
Value creation tops private equity agenda as limited partners fret about DPI

Oct 2, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Lucy Chapman |Harriet Matthews |Santosh Shetty

Conference coverage By Harriet Matthews, analytics by Santosh Shetty With DPI down, GPs are pondering value creation and exit opportunities M&A uptick widely expected in 2024 as IPO market comes to life GPs explore NAV financing, despite LP scepticism The question of how private equity (PE) firms can continue to create value for limited partners (LPs) when debt is expensive was on everybody’s lips as the industry gathered in Paris for the ninth edition of the IPEM conference. Distributed to...
L3Harris likely to seek more disposals after avionics

Sep 29, 2023 | info.mergermarket.com | Carlos Martinez |Richard Tekneci |Diane Alter |Bhavna Kaul

Public By Richard Tekneci, Diane Alter, Bhavna Kaul L3Harris Technologies [NYSE:LHX], the aerospace and defense company, is expected to look at further asset sales after the divestiture of its avionics business, an effort which is at an advanced stage, said three sources familiar with the matter. Two of the sources said L3Harris continues to look at rejiggering its segments and this will likely lead to more divests of businesses that may not fit. These two sources and the third source...