Logicscope, a UK electronic trade notification platform, is to be acquired by is US counterpart MarkitSERV, in a push to extend its reach in processing foreign exchange transactions.
Expenditure on acquisitions abroad by UK companies has fallen to £10.2 billion in the second quarter of 2011, down from £20.7 billion in quarter one, in contrast to the increase seen in domestic M&A as buyers look for local value, new statistics show.
A lack of insight into the challenges associated with consolidating financial practices means organisations are struggling to achieve the desired goals of M&A says Gary Waylett.
IT giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) has acquired Autonomy, a UK-based provider of information management software and services, in the second big-ticket technology M&A deal of the week.
Dragons’ Den investor and serial telecoms entrepreneur Peter Jones has sold IT communications business Wireless Logic to the company’s management and private equity firm ECI Partners for £38 million.
With the very best of the UK M&A world assembled at the Millennium Mayfair hotel in London's Grosvenor Square, the M&A Awards 2011 afforded the opportunity to take stock of what was another difficult but prosperous year for many.
With a strong showing at the end of 2010, the past year has seen a resurgence in M&A activity as dealmakers completed a series of exciting and innovative transactions.
Disclosed deal value in the global automotive M&A market fell by US$10 billion to $29.4 billion in 2010, as the level of disclosed figures in 2009 helped improve statistics.
