M&A Deal Summary

Experian Acquires Computec S.A.

On November 9, 2011, Experian acquired financial services company Computec S.A. for 380M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Experian’s 5th transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is Experian’s 5th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Experian’s 1st transaction in Poland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-11-09
Target Computec S.A.
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) Experian
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 380M USD

Target

Computec S.A.

Swiebodzin, Poland
Computec is a leading Latin American credit services information provider based in Colombia.

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Buyer

Experian

Dublin, Ireland

Category Company
Founded 1826
Sector Information Services
Employees23,300
Revenue 7.5B GBP (2025)
DESCRIPTION

Experian is a global information services group with operations in 40 countries. Experian was founded in 1826 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 47 of 66
Sector: Financial Services M&A 5 of 8
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 41 of 57
Country: Poland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 5 of 7
Size (of disclosed) 5 of 17
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-07-26 LM Group

Ollerton, United Kingdom

LM Group, trading as Riskdisk Ltd, provides commercial credit reports and commercial risk information to approximately 18,000 SME businesses in the UK. LM Group is an existing partner of Experian.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-11-28 192business

London, United Kingdom

192business helps organisations to verify and manage the identity of their customers online in order to minimise fraud and risk. Increasing regulation, the rise in fraud globally, growth in e-commerce sales and the move from traditional offline identity checks to online checks are all contributing to growth in the identity verification market.

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