Merger & Acquisition News

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (“RRD”) (NYSE: RRD) today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Atlas Holdings LLC (“Atlas”), which operates a global family of manufacturing and distribution businesses, in an all-cash transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $2.1 billion. The merger agreement has been unanimously approved by RRD’s board of directors. Under the terms of the merger agreement,...

EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NovaBay completes $15 million financing and expects to complete acquisition of DERMAdoctor, LLC on November 5, 2021....

FREIBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LEA Partners GmbH (LEA), a private equity and venture capital investor based in Karlsruhe, Germany, today announced the acquisition of Base-Net Informatik AG (Base-Net), a Swiss software provider leading in the field of credit and mortgage management. Board Advisors Deutschland AG acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to the shareholders of Base-Net. The team of Christoph Löslein, Urs Niederberger, Felix Brokatzky and Federico Arcelli was able to successfull...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, SecureAuth, a leader in next generation identity and access management for the Global 2000, has acquired Acceptto, an emerging leader in passwordless authentication and behavioral modeling to infer whether a user is a threat before authentication, during authentication, and post-authorization. The acquisition will position SecureAuth to take advantage of the increasingly strategic need for enterprises to better secure identities to support their growing h...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Resolution Life acquires AMP Limited’s (AMP) minority equity interest in Resolution Life Australasia for a total consideration of AUD524 million....

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QAD Inc. (Nasdaq: QADA) (Nasdaq: QADB), a leading provider of next-generation manufacturing and supply chain solutions in the cloud, today announced that its stockholders approved the acquisition of QAD by Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm, at a special meeting. “With the strong support of our stockholders, we have taken another important step toward completing the transaction with Thoma Bravo and beginning QAD’s next chapter as a private co...

AMHERST, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allied Motion Expands Motion System Solution Capabilities with Acquisition of ORMEC Systems Corp....

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compass Minerals (NYSE: CMP), a leading global provider of essential minerals, today announced a $45 million equity investment in FORTRESS North America (Fortress), an early-stage long-term fire retardant (LTR) company dedicated to developing and producing a portfolio of more environmentally friendly and carbon neutral fire retardants to combat the devastating effects of wildfires in North America and around the world. This builds upon the initial $5 millio...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mirion Technologies, Inc. (“Mirion”), a global provider of detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring solutions to the medical, nuclear, defense, and research end markets, today announced the acquisition of CHP Dosimetry, a U.S.-based distributor of dosimetry services. The acquisition closed on November 1, 2021. Headquartered in Clinton, TN, CHP Dosimetry provides dosimetry services for medical practices, veterinary offices, universities, and government agencies,...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) (“Elastic”), the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Optimyze, an “always on” continuous profiling platform for infrastructure, applications and services to give customers a simpler way to get insights into their entire IT ecosystem and eliminate blind spots. “We are excited to welcome the Optimyze team to Elastic as we join forces to accelerate our vision for un...