Dear Clients & Friends,
Below is a link to our June 2012 Market Update. As you will see, it provides our sense of M&A values, activity and trends for the dozen plus technology, information and healthcare sectors that we follow.
Click here for our Market Update
This month we saw multiple transactions announced with, again, many transactions well under $200M. One of these transactions involved our client, London-based Coalition Development Ltd., which has agreed to be acquired by Mumbai-based CRISIL, Ltd., a leading research and analytics firm and the world’s largest provider of equity and fixed income research services. Coalition is a financial services analytics company providing high-end analytics, mainly to leading global investment banks. The all-cash transaction has a maximum payout of £29M with an earnout over 2 years. This reinforces our belief that strategics and financial sponsors continue to show a willingness to pay reasonable values for firms that show scale, growth and a prominent position in the marketplace, but have little appetite for mega-deals.
A few deals demonstrate the needs faced by security exchanges for improved governance, risk management and compliance include:
• NASDAQ OMX (Nasdaq: NDAQ) agreed to acquire BWise for an undisclosed amount; and
• NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) agreed to acquire Corpedia for an undisclosed amount.
Additional notable deals include:
• Bloomberg acquired PolarLake for an undisclosed amount;
• Markit agreed to acquire Cadis for an undisclosed amount;
• SS&C (Nasdaq: SSNC) acquired Thomson Reuters’ PORTIA business for $175M;
• Ybrant agreed to acquire PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and ClassesUSA from Experian for $175M;
• Francisco Partners agreed to acquire Kewill (LSE: KWL) for £89.5M ($145M);
• Castlight Health raised $100M in a Series D Round;
• Formpipe Software AB agreed to acquire Traen A/S for SEK 300M ($41.6M);
• Davis + Henderson Corporation acquired Avista Solutions, Inc. for $40M; and
• IHS acquired XeDAR Corporation for $28M.
Private Equity firms are now showing increased appetite for Healthcare IT. Silver Lake Partners and Essex Woodlands announced the acquisition of MEDSEEK, and Symphony Technology Group acquired Source Healthcare Analytics from Wolters Kluwer.
We hope you will find this month’s newsletter useful. We are always available to answer questions.