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The latest Autotech & Mobility M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for software and technology companies, reveals a resurgence of energy in the sector, with dealmaking growing after a temporary decline in the first half of 2024. Increased transactions, and the fact that valuation multiples have remained consistent, indicate renewed investor confidence following a period of caution stemming from macroeconomic and regulatory pressures. This momentum is expected to build in 2025, with new caps on vehicular carbon emissions spurring the electric

The newest Enterprise Software M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for software and technology companies, has revealed a surge in dealmaking in the sector, with transactions in the second half of last year up by 18% from the previous reporting period. Commenting on the key trends fuelling deal volume, Miro Parizek, founder and Senior Partner at Hampleton Partners, said: “Transaction volumes in the sector, which have been consistently robust since the beginning of the decade, increased in the second half of last year. In total we tracked

The latest IT & Business Services M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for software and technology companies, reveals an uptick in both deal activity and the median EBITDA multiple for the sector. This follows a drop in transaction numbers seen in 1H2024, which was likely due to both macroeconomic headwinds and a normalisation of deal activity following the M&A surge seen during pandemic.

The new Digital Commerce M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international M&A and corporate finance advisory firm for software and technology companies, reveals that 2H2024 was the second consecutive six-month period to see a rise in dealmaking. However, buyers remain cautious and highly profit-conscious when selecting acquisition targets, with transaction numbers continuing to lag markedly behind what was seen during the feeding frenzy of the pandemic years. Hampleton Partners’ Digital Commerce expert Ralph Hübner said: “Our latest market data confirms that deal flow is steadily recovering in

Hampleton Partners’ Digital Commerce M&A Market report reveals that whilst the number of global M&A deals in Q1 shot up to 699, things took a sharp turn in Q2 2022, when 544 deals were recorded, down 22 per cent on the previous quarter. Q3 experienced a further decline in deal making with 410 deals announced, a 41 per cent drop from Q1.

Enterprise Applications are the driving force behind a bumper start to dealmaking in 2018. Saas & Cloud transaction volumes rose 27 percent compared to 1Q2017, with a total of 269 deals, whilst four acquisitions reached the billion-dollar milestone in the first three-months of the year, twice as many as the same period last year.

Hampleton Partners, an international mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, has advised DOCUFY GmbH, a German software manufacturer and a service provider for technical documentation, on its acquisition by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, a German precision mechanical engineering company.

The world’s major IT players – Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce – are racing to invest in, acquire and absorb cutting-edge artificial intelligence start-ups and scaleups, according to Hampleton Partners’ latest Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Market Report on Artificial Intelligence , published today.

Hampleton Partners, the international mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory firm for technology companies, advised VI-grade GmbH , a leading provider of best-in-class turnkey solutions for system level simulation, on its acquisition by Spectris Plc. , supplier of productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls. This is the third automotive tech transaction completed by Hampleton Partners in the last 12 months.

In its latest analysis of global Mergers & Acquisitions activity in Enterprise Software, Hampleton Partners reports that the sector delivered its best half-year on record with 522 transactions in total. Deal volume was up 11 per cent year-over-year and up 15 percent from the previous half-year period. With above $1 billion valuations also rising fast – 14 during the first half of 2018, compared with just five in 2H2017 and three during 1H2017 – records for the enterprise technology sector are already breaking.