M&A Deal Summary

FE fundinfo Acquires fundinfo

On November 26, 2018, FE fundinfo acquired information technology company fundinfo from HgCapital

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is FE fundinfo’s 3rd transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is FE fundinfo’s 1st transaction in Switzerland.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2018-11-26
Target fundinfo
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) FE fundinfo
Sellers(s) HgCapital
Deal Type Merger

Target

fundinfo

Zurich, Switzerland
fundinfo is a technology platform for fund data and documents publication and dissemination to the global fund industry. fundinfo facilitates the publication & dissemination of fund data and documents between asset managers and distributors of funds (including banks, insurance companies, financial advisers, family offices, fund platforms). With over 500 asset management clients, and a network of over 100 distribution partners across Europe and Asia, fundinfo enables over 19 million documents to be made available to the fund industry in a compliant and visible way. fundinfo was founded in 2005 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

FE fundinfo

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Sector Information Technology
DESCRIPTION

FE fundinfo is a global fund data and technology leader. FE fundinfo facilitate better, more efficient investing by connecting fund managers and fund distributors and enabling them to share and act on trusted information. FE fundinfo is based in London, United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Information Technology M&A 3 of 3
Type: Merger M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: Switzerland M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2018 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-11-26 F2C

Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

F2C provides asset managers with a state-of-the-art fund data management platform, publiFund, enabling its clients, including some of the largest asset managers in the world, to significantly increase the quality and timeliness of their data output. F2C was founded in 2005 and is based in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

HgCapital

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 70.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

HgCapital is a European private equity firm focused on a wide range of transactions including public-to-private leveraged buy-outs, management buy-ins, divestitures, and turnarounds. Broad sectors of interest include consumer and leisure, healthcare, industrials, services, technology, media, and renewable energy. The Firm will consider both majority and minority investment positions. HgCapital is the successor to Mercury Capital Partners, a former unit of Merill Lynch which was spun out by management in 2000. HgCapital has offices in London and Munich.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 69 of 97
Sector: Information Technology M&A 3 of 5
Type: Merger M&A Deals 2 of 5
Country: Switzerland M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2018 M&A 10 of 10
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-11-26 FE fundinfo

London, United Kingdom

FE fundinfo is a global fund data and technology leader. FE fundinfo facilitate better, more efficient investing by connecting fund managers and fund distributors and enabling them to share and act on trusted information. FE fundinfo is based in London, United Kingdom.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-12-21 Combell

Ghent, Belgium

Combell is a mass web hoster offering services from domain names, email and shared hosting to online presence, e-commerce solutions and server hosting in the cloud. Combell was founded in 1999 and is based in Ghent, Belgium.

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