Time to Get Big, Get Local or Get Out! While much of the recent focus has been on the big players in the Cloud market, that are all competing for scale, there remains a competitive play for focused MSPs that is often...
Customers will benefit with the subsidiaries’ merger with SBI
State Bank of Travancore (SBT),the only public sector bank head-quartered in Kerala, was established in 1945 as the Travancore Bank Ltd. It became a subsidiary of State Bank of India (SBI) under the SBI Subsidiary Banks...
LinkedIn’s sale is a sign of what’s to come for Twitter and other social media companies
When LinkedIn went public in 2011, it was heralded as the first in a new wave of social media companies landing on Wall Street. Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and Groupon were months if not years away from their public...
So Many M&A Deals Fail Because Companies Overlook This Simple Strategy
We have all seen or heard of high-profile cases where M&A deals didn’t work out. AOL–Time Warner, HP-Compaq, Quaker-Snapple — these are just some of the big ones. An analysis of 2,500 such deals by our firm shows...
MedData to buy PE-backed Cardon Outreach for $400 mln
MedData Inc has agreed to acquire Texas-based Cardon Outreach LLC, a provider of revenue cycle management services, for a consideration of $400 million. The deal is expected to be completed within the next month. Cain...
Heartland Media and MSouth Equity Partners Enter into an Agreement to Purchase Five Stations From Nexstar Broadcasting Group and Media General for $115,000,000
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Heartland Media, LLC (“Heartland”) and MSouth Equity Partners (“MSouth”) announced today that they have entered into an agreement to purchase five stations from Nexstar Broadcasting...
Insurity Acquires Tropics Software Technologies
SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–From the IASA Annual Education and Business Conference Insurity, Inc., a provider of core insurance processing and data integration and analytics solutions, today announced its...
Hexagon Acquires NESTIX Oy, a Leading Provider of Data-Centric Software Solutions for Managing and Optimising Steel Fabrication
Hexagon AB (STO:HEXAB), a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, today announced the acquisition of NESTIX Oy, a...
Delhi Based Used Car Marketplace Hopcar Merges With Spinny
New Delhi-based online used car marketplaces, Hopcar, has announced merger with Gurgaon-based Spinny. Post merger, the two companies will work under a common brand name Spinny. The four co-founders of Hopcar viz. Arijit...
Not all software M&A is created equal
What’s notable about recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in software companies (including SaaS) isn’t the number of deals (7), their worth ($8.6B disclosed value), or even the timing (all took...
Inside a Merger: Perspectives from Inside and Outside Counsel
Matt Furman had spent less than a month as general counsel at the insurance brokerage firm Willis Group Holdings in 2015, when he learned the company was in talks to combine with Towers Watson & Co. Furman said his...
Merger And Acquisition Target Entellus, And Our Reasoning Behind It
Summary Entellus has laid a plan for profitability in the future and is performing well. Slowing growth in XENT and JNJ may initiate ENTL as a merger/acquisition target. We outlined why XENT and ENTL would be a...
