M&A Deal Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2025-04-14 |
| Target | OSTTRA |
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Buyer(s) | KKR |
| Sellers(s) |
S&P Global
CME Group |
| Deal Type | Divestiture |
| Deal Value | 3.1B USD |
| Advisor(s) | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Legal) |
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| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1976 |
| PE ASSETS | 267.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
KKR is a global investment firm founded by Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts. The Firm is separated into several business segments including private markets, public markets, capital markets, and other principal activities. KKR's private equity practice invests in management buyouts, take privates, corporate divestitures, industry consolidations, and partnerships with family-owned companies. KKR will invest in a broad range of industries and companies and will consider businesses throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. Sectors of interest include chemicals, consumer products, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare, industrial, media/communications, retail, and technology. In addition to its traditional principal investment activity business, KKR also invests in infrastructure assets. KKR was formed in 1976 and is based in New York, New York.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 491 of 499 |
| Sector: Financial Services M&A | 22 of 22 |
| Type: Divestiture M&A Deals | 54 of 54 |
| Country: United Kingdom M&A | 32 of 33 |
| Year: 2025 M&A | 5 of 13 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 36 of 108 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-09 |
Karo Healthcare
Stockholm , Sweden Karo Healthcare is a specialty pharmaceutical company in the Nordics. Karo Healthcare develops and markets products for pharmacies and directly to the healthcare sector. The product portfolio includes over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceuticals as well as medical devices. Karo Healthcare was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. |
Buy | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-15 |
Datagroup
Pliezhausen, Germany Datagroup is an IT service enterprise that provides highly qualified and certified services in the areas of consulting, integration + solutions, and operations. Datagroup was founded in 2005 and is based in Pliezhausen, Germany. |
Buy | €450M |
| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1860 |
| Sector | Information Services |
| Employees | 40,450 |
| Revenue | 14.2B USD (2024) |
S&P Global is a financial intelligence company providing the global capital and commodity markets with independent benchmarks, credit ratings, portfolio and enterprise risk solutions, and analytics. The company's brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Platts, CRISIL, J.D. Power and McGraw Hill Construction. S&P Global was founded in 1860 and is based in New York City.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 13 of 13 |
| Sector: Financial Services M&A | 2 of 2 |
| Type: Divestiture M&A Deals | 12 of 12 |
| Country: United Kingdom M&A | 1 of 1 |
| Year: 2025 M&A | 1 of 1 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 1 of 9 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-06 |
ProntoNLP
United States ProntoNLP is a provider of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tooling, allowing users to derive differentiated insights from unstructured and structured data. |
Buy | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-24 |
ORBCOMM - Automatic Identification System
Sterling, Virginia, United States ORBCOMM's Automatic Identification System is a provider of satellite data services used to track and monitor vessels, enhancing maritime visibility and delivering critical insights that support business intelligence and decision-making for government and commercial clients worldwide. ORBCOMM's Automatic Identification System is based in Sterling, Virginia. |
Buy | - |
| Category | Company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1898 |
| Sector | Financial Services |
| Employees | 3,760 |
| Revenue | 6.1B USD (2024) |
CME Group provides a marketplace for buyers and sellers, bringing together individuals, companies and institutions that need to manage risk or that want to profit by accepting risk. CME Group also offers a growing slate of cleared OTC products and services. CME Group was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 3 of 3 |
| Sector: Financial Services M&A | 1 of 1 |
| Type: Divestiture M&A Deals | 3 of 3 |
| Country: United Kingdom M&A | 2 of 2 |
| Year: 2025 M&A | 1 of 1 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 1 of 2 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 |
OSTTRA
London, United Kingdom OSTTRA is a critical infrastructure provider in the post-trade space, processing over 80 million trades monthly. OSTTRA was formed in 2021 and is based in London. |
Buy | - |
