Investment Summary

Emerson Invests In Aspen Technology

On October 11, 2021, Emerson invested in software company Aspen Technology

Investment Highlights
  • This is Emerson’s 11th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Emerson’s 42nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Emerson’s 5th transaction in Massachusetts.
Investment Fate
  • Aspen Technology was sold to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2025 for 7.2B USD.

Investment Summary

Date 2021-10-11
Target Aspen Technology
Sector Software
Investor(s) Emerson
Deal Type Stake Purchase
Advisor(s) J.P. Morgan Securities (Financial)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Legal)

Target

Aspen Technology

Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
AspenTech is a global asset management software provider, making enterprise asset performance management, asset performance monitoring, and asset optimization solutions, making industrial digital transformation possible. Aspen Technology was formed in 2021 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Emerson

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Category Company
Founded 1890
Sector Diversified
Employees73,000
Revenue 17.5B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Emerson Electric's corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.
Emerson Electric's corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.

Emerson is a diversified manufacturing and technology company. Emerson offers a wide range of products and services in the industrial, commercial, and consumer markets through its Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions businesses. Emerson was founded in 1890 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 63 of 68
Sector: Software M&A 11 of 12
Type: Stake Purchase M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Massachusetts M&A 5 of 6
Country: United States M&A 42 of 44
Year: 2021 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-10-11 OSI

Medina, Minnesota, United States

Open Systems International, Inc. is a technology company provides open, state-of-the-art and high-performance enterprise automation solutions to utilities worldwide. these solutions include supervisory control and data acquisition (scada) systems, energy management systems (ems), distribution management systems (dms), outage management systems (oms), generation management systems (gms), substation automation (sa) systems, data warehousing (historian) analytics, distributed energy resource management systems (derms), situational awareness systems, pipeline application systems (pas), individual software and hardware products, and smart grid solutions for utility operations.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-12-16 Mita-Teknik

Rodkaersbro, Denmark

Mita-Teknik is a manufacturer of control concepts for the wind turbine industry and other industries. The company offers a unique control concept for the wind turbine industry which can be tailored to the individual customer’s needs and spans the control, management and monitoring of both individual wind turbines and entire wind farms. Mita-Teknik was founded in 1969 and is based in Rodkaersbro, Denmark.

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