M&A Deal Summary

ECI Partners Acquires Insurance Insider

On November 14, 2024, private equity firm ECI Partners acquired digital media company Insurance Insider from Delinian

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ECI Partners’ 2nd transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is ECI Partners’ 73rd transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2024-11-14
Target Insurance Insider
Sector Digital Media
Buyer(s) ECI Partners
Sellers(s) Delinian
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Insurance Insider

London, United Kingdom
Insurance Insider is a digital news and intelligence platform for the London insurance and global reinsurance markets. The company helps clients seize new business opportunities and avoid risks by providing breaking news, deep analysis, and actionable insights on the insurance market. Across three products, its intelligence covers the London market, global (re)insurance market, insurance-linked securities market, and US property and casualty market. Insurance Insider was formed in 1996 and is based in London.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

ECI Partners

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1976
PE ASSETS 2.0B GBP
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

ECI Partners is a private equity firm focused on the smaller middle-market company that invests in growing businesses valued up to £300m. ECI looks for UK businesses or businesses with a substantial presence in the UK. Funds are generally used to support expansion, acquisitions, management buyouts, buy-ins, turnarounds, and refinancing. Target sectors include IT services, support services, Insurance, and SME services. ECI will not invest in early-stage companies. ECI Partners was formed in 1976 and has offices in London, Manchester, and New York.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 78 of 78
Sector (Digital Media) 2 of 2
Type (Divestiture) 7 of 7
Country (United Kingdom) 73 of 73
Year (2024) 4 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-11-04 CMAP Software

Cheshire, United Kingdom

CMAP Software is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, to support the firm’s rapidly growing team and global expansion plans. CMAP Software is based in Cheshire, United Kingdom.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Delinian

London, United Kingdom
Category Company
Founded 1969
Sector Media
Revenue 336M GBP (2021)
DESCRIPTION

Delinian is an international publishing, events and electronic information group, delivering business information to the finance, law, energy and transport sectors for over 35 years. Delinian was founded in 1969 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 8
Sector (Digital Media) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 7 of 7
Country (United Kingdom) 3 of 3
Year (2024) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-06-01 Fastmarkets

London, United Kingdom

Fastmarkets is a provider of real-time metals market information. Fastmarkets is used by non-ferrous and precious metals traders and risk managers every day as an important workflow tool. Through its online platform, it provides over 120 proprietary price assessments, combined with exchange data including futures prices from the world’s largest commodity exchanges such as the LME and the CME. It provides coverage of non-ferrous physical premiums plus supporting treasury data supported by market commentary including webcasts directly from the LME floor. Fastmarkets’ respected service also delivers daily technical and fundamental reports to its users. Fastmarkets was founded in 1882 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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