M&A Deal Summary

Veritas Capital Acquires Wood Mackenzie

On February 2, 2023, private equity firm Veritas Capital acquired information services company Wood Mackenzie from Verisk

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Veritas Capital’s 2nd transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is Veritas Capital’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2023-02-02
Target Wood Mackenzie
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) Veritas Capital
Sellers(s) Verisk
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Wood Mackenzie

London, United Kingdom
Wood Mackenzie is a provider of commercial intelligence for the energy, metals, and mining industries. The company provides objective analysis and advice on assets, companies, and markets, giving clients the insight they need to make better strategic decisions. Wood Mackenzie was formed in 1973 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Veritas Capital

New York, New York, United States

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 50.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that targets investments in defense, aerospace, government services, media/telecommunications, consumer products, and specialty manufacturing companies. Veritas generally partners with management when pursuing investments. Prospective transaction situations include buyouts, growth capital investments, and leveraged recapitalizations. Veritas Capital was established in 1992 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 39 of 42
Sector: Information Services M&A 2 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 18 of 19
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2023 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-10-13 Frontgrade Technologies

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Frontgrade Technologies is a producer of mission critical components and assemblies for satellites and defense platforms primarily for the government and intelligence community. The Company is a supplier of high-reliability (hi-rel) and radiation hardened (rad-hard) components, high-fidelity signal processing, and power management solutions. Frontgrade Technologies is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-05-10 Syneos Health

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Syneos Health is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. Syneos Health translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Syneos Health was founded in 2010 and is based in Morrisville, North Carolina.

Buy $7.1B

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Verisk

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Category Company
Founded 1971
Sector Information Technology
Employees7,800
Revenue 2.9B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Verisk is a source of information about risk.offer risk assessment services and decision analytics for professionals in many fields. property/casualty insurance, financial services, healthcare, government, human resources. Verisk was based in 1971 and is based in Jersey City, New Jersey.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 6
Sector: Information Services M&A 2 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 6 of 6
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2023 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-03-14 3E

Carlsbad, California, United States

3E is a global provider of data-driven intelligent compliance solutions in the environmental, health, safety & sustainability space. The Company has a long history of innovation that has resulted in the development of differentiated and mission-critical data assets such as global regulatory content and a proprietary database of over 10+ million safety data sheets, 3,000+ regulatory lists and 30,000+ generic classes of substances. 3E was founded in 1988 and is based in Carlsbad, California.

Sell $950M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-04-02 Simplitium

London, United Kingdom

Simplitium is a MiFID-compliant trade reporting platform that enables investment firms to meet their pre-trade quoting and post-trade reporting obligations for European OTC equity trades. Simplitium was founded in 2007 and is based in London, England.

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