M&A Deal Summary

Bloomberg Acquires Bloomberg BNA

On August 25, 2011, Bloomberg acquired business services company Bloomberg BNA for 900M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Bloomberg’s 2nd transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Bloomberg’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Bloomberg’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Bloomberg’s 1st transaction in Maryland.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-08-25
Target Bloomberg BNA
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Bloomberg
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 900M USD

Target

Bloomberg BNA

Bethesda, Maryland, United States
website
Bloomberg BNA is a source of legal, tax, regulatory, and business information for professionals. BNA's network of more than 2,500 reporters, correspondents, and practitioners deliver analysis, news, practice tools, and guidance. BNA's coverage spans the full range of legal practice areas, including tax & accounting, labor & employment, intellectual property, banking & securities, employee benefits, health care, privacy & data security, human resources, and environment, health & safety.

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Buyer

Bloomberg

New York, New York, United States

website

Category Company
Founded 1982
Sector Information Services
DESCRIPTION

Bloomberg is a financial technology firm that supplies data, reports and analytics services to clients worldwide. Bloomberg's media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 10
Sector (Business Services) 2 of 3
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 2 of 7
State (Maryland) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 2 of 6
Year (2011) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-12-10 New Energy Finance

London, United Kingdom

New Energy Finance provides news, data and analysis on renewable energy, carbon markets, energy efficiency, biofuels, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear power.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-05-22 Polarlake

Dublin, Ireland

Polarlake is a provider of integration application solutions that offer ease of deployment and a quick return on investment for financial services and government departments. The Polarlake Integration Suite easily integrates both web services and legacy systems without additional coding via an Enterprise Service Bus - the new generation of standards-based enterprise integration software.

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