Add-on Acquisition • Financial Services

Octus Acquires Sky Road

On June 2, 2025, Octus acquired financial services company Sky Road

Acquisition Context

This is Octus’ 1st transaction in the Financial Services sector.
This is Octus’ 4th transaction in the United States.
This is Octus’ 1st transaction in Illinois.

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M&A Deal Summary
Date	June 2, 2025
Target	Sky Road
Sector	Financial Services
Buyer(s)	Octus
Deal Type	Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s)	Winston & Strawn (Legal)

Target Company

Sky Road

Naperville, Illinois, United States

Sky Road provides credit portfolio management solutions for CLO, MMCLO, ABF, direct lending, and other public and private structured credit. Sky Road is based in Naperville, Illinois.

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Buyer

Octus

New York, New York, United States

Category	Company
Founded	2013
Sector	Information Services

DESCRIPTION

Octus is a provider of real-time news, commentary, and analysis on issues affecting the distressed debt, event-driven, and leveraged finance markets. Octus was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Deal Context for Buyer	#
Overall	5 of 5
Sector: Financial Services	1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition	5 of 5
State: Illinois	1 of 1
Country: United States	4 of 4
Year: 2025	1 of 1

PREVIOUS DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2024-01-09	LoansIntel New York City, New York, United States LoansIntel is an independent credit research firm specializing in private broadly-syndicated loans and high-yield issuers. Its team of former sell-side and buy-side analysts builds and manages a web-based portfolio of plug-and-play resources for each credit to support portfolio monitoring and secondary trade ideation while giving investors more bandwidth to focus on critical thinking and alpha generation. LoansIntel was formed in 2020 and is based in New York City.	Buy	-

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DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2024-01-09

LoansIntel

New York City, New York, United States

LoansIntel is an independent credit research firm specializing in private broadly-syndicated loans and high-yield issuers. Its team of former sell-side and buy-side analysts builds and manages a web-based portfolio of plug-and-play resources for each credit to support portfolio monitoring and secondary trade ideation while giving investors more bandwidth to focus on critical thinking and alpha generation. LoansIntel was formed in 2020 and is based in New York City.

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