M&A Deal Summary

HgCapital Acquires Blinqx

On January 1, 2022, private equity firm HgCapital acquired software company Blinqx

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is HgCapital’s 41st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is HgCapital’s 8th transaction in the Netherlands.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2022-01-01
Target Blinqx
Sector Software
Buyer(s) HgCapital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Blinqx

Barendrecht, Netherlands
Blinqx is a provider of mission-critical software to white-collar SMEs and corporates. Blinqx is a multi-vertical ERP software provider serving more than 100,000 users across 1,500 clients in sectors such as insurance and mortgage intermediaries, financial institutions, accountants, lawyers and governmental organisations. Blinqx was founded in 2019 and is based in Barendrecht, Netherlands.

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Buyer

HgCapital

London, United Kingdom

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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 139 of 153
Sector: Software M&A 41 of 48
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 32 of 36
Country: Netherlands M&A 8 of 8
Year: 2022 M&A 2 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-01-01 Norstella

Yardley, Pennsylvania, United States

Norstella is a global pharma intelligence solutions provider. Norstella helps life sciences clients navigate complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle, from pipeline to patient. Norstella was founded in 1994 and is based in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-01-11 MDT Software

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

MDT Software develops and sells 'change management' software for manufacturing automation systems. MDT Software provides a secure environment for controlling access to programming code used to program plant floor industrial control and monitoring devices such as PLCs, Operator Interfaces, Robotics, and a wide variety of other devices. In addition to providing this secure environment, MDT Software is capable of detecting and documenting all modifications to plant floor programs. Modifications are summarized for management review. MDT Software was founded in 1987 and is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.

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