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Business Objects S.A Acquires Cartesis SA

On April 23, 2007, Business Objects S.A acquired software company Cartesis SA from Apax

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Business Objects S.A’s 5th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Business Objects S.A’s 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2007-04-23
Target Cartesis SA
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Business Objects S.A
Sellers(s) Apax
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Cartesis SA

Paris, France
Cartesis is a global software vendor that provides trusted solutions for driving your company's financial and business performance. Cartesis equips its customers with the control and insight they need to assess and react in today's rapidly changing marketplace. One in five Fortune Global 100 companies rely on Cartesis' powerful technology to unify complex information, people and processes in a single data model that can be applied easily and consistently across multiple geographies and business segments. Cartesis' customers success depends on having meaningful insight to act upon, because great performances start with confidence.

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Buyer

Business Objects S.A

Levallois-perret, France
Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

Business Objects SA provides business intelligence software and services worldwide.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 7
Sector: Software M&A 5 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 7
Country: France M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2007 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-11-23 Nsite Software

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Nsite Software, Inc. is a provider of on-demand software application for the enterprise.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-05-25 Inxight Software

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Inxight Software is a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of data search and discovery tools.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Apax

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1981
PE ASSETS 77.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Apax Partners is a mega-sized private equity investment group, operating across the United States, Europe, Israel and Asia. Broad industry sectors of interest include tech & telecom, media, retail & consumer, healthcare, financial services, and business services. Apax will consider both minority and majority investment positions and prefers companies with strong market positions and growth potential. The Firm generally pursues platform acquisitions valued from $1 to $5 billion. Apax Partners was formed in 1981 and is based in London.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 24 of 173
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 16
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 9 of 60
Country: France M&A 6 of 18
Year: 2007 M&A 8 of 17
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-04-11 Crane Telecommunications

West Sussex, United Kingdom

Crane Telecommunications Group Limited distributes voice, data, and converged communications solutions to companies in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

Sell £21M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-04-27 SULO Group

Australia

SULO was the second largest waste collection service provider in Germany.

Sell €1.5B
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