ANSYS acquired by SYNOPSYS

Sapiens International Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by funds advised by Advent in an all,cash transaction. Under the terms of the deal, shareholders will receive $43.50 per share, representing a significant 64% premium over the company's undisturbed closing price on August 8, 2025. While Advent will take a controlling stake, the existing shareholder Formula Systems (1985) Ltd. will retain a minority ownership position in the privately held company. The strategic rationale for the acquisition is to accelerate the group's transition toward AI,driven and SaaS,based insurance solutions. By moving into a private setting, the entity will benefit from Advent's global resources and operational expertise to navigate market shifts more effectively and enhance its product innovation roadmap. The deal is expected to close between late 2025 and early 2026, subject to customary regulatory approvals and shareholder consent. Following the completion of the merger, the company will be de,listed from the NASDAQ and TASE. The transaction is supported by $1.3 billion in aggregate equity contributions from Advent, providing a high level of closing certainty for the company's future innovation in the insurance technology sector.

Thoma Bravo entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Verint in an all-cash transaction valued at an enterprise value of $2 billion. Common shareholders are to receive $20.50 per share, representing an 18% premium over the unaffected share price. The deal was structured as a reverse-triangular merger. Upon closing, Thoma Bravo intends to merge Verint with its existing portfolio company, Calabrio, to create the industry's broadest AI-powered CX platform. This consolidation aims to capture the significant opportunity in automating CX workflows for brands of all sizes.

IN Groupe successfully finalized the acquisition of IDEMIA Smart Identity to establish itself as a global leader in secure identity solutions and trust services. This transaction, the largest in IN Groupe's history, significantly scales the group’s operations, tripling its workforce to 4,000 employees and pushing consolidated revenues above €1 billion. The deal is strategically designed to merge the geographical, commercial, and technological complementarities of both entities, creating a dominant European champion capable of competing on a global scale. By internalizing IDEMIA Smart Identity's expertise, IN Groupe strengthens its control over the entire identity value chain and accelerates its international growth, particularly in the expanding digital identity and "phy-gital" markets.

Rocscience has completed the cross-border acquisition of 2SI, an innovative Italian provider of structural engineering software solutions. This transaction marks another corporate development for Rocscience, following its previous software acquisitions of DIANA FEA and 3GSM. Under the terms of the agreement, Rocscience will integrate 2SI’s technical expertise and proprietary software technologies directly into its existing global product portfolio. The transaction was driven via a bilateral process, ensuring full alignment between both corporate entities. The acquisition accelerates Rocscience’s international growth strategy by expanding its product capabilities outside its core geotechnical software domain and into the structural engineering software segment. By absorbing 2SI, Rocscience expands its suite of 2D and 3D engineering software solutions tailored for civil, infrastructure, mining, and construction professionals worldwide. The industrial synergy thesis centers on leveraging Rocscience’s extensive global customer base and commercial platform to scale 2SI’s reliable and productive structural tools. This cross-border integration reinforces Rocscience's market leadership and allows it to capture broader engineering software demand across Europe and international markets.

Groupe Baelen entered into a definitive agreement to sell a minority stake of less than 30% in its software subsidiary, SoftNext, to the family-backed investor Perwyn. This strategic partnership was established to reinforce the group’s acquisition engine and provide the professional expertise required to scale the organization toward a multi-billion euro valuation. While the operational management remains autonomous, the entry of new strategic capital is intended to refine the group’s consolidation processes and broaden its network of potential acquisition targets across Europe. The deal was structured to allow the parent group to retain control while benefiting from the sector-specific experience of a specialist investor in scaling technology platforms.

This transaction involves the acquisition of an 80% majority stake in Visicon GmbH by Var Group, a strategic move designed to reinforce the acquirer's Enterprise Platform Competence Center and accelerate its internationalization in the DACH market. The business combination is driven by the demand for end-to-end digitalization of business processes within mid-market manufacturing enterprises. By integrating the target’s specialized SAP and EDI expertise, the acquirer strengthens its service portfolio and gains a new regional foothold, particularly in Germany and Austria. The rationale includes the cross-pollination of EDI and digital document flow solutions across the acquirer’s broader European customer base, creating significant potential for revenue synergies.

The acquisition of Grata shifts Datasite’s economic footprint up the M&A value chain, embedding its platform into the initial, recurring stage of deal sourcing rather than relying solely on episodic transaction execution. This combination establishes a single ecosystem for capital allocators, pairing Grata’s predictive private market data with Datasite’s aggregate, anonymized transaction insights to build a proprietary database moat that increases client switching costs. The transaction opens immediate international cross-sell channels for Grata’s software by leveraging Datasite’s established global sales force and institutional corporate relationships. Backed by a substantial follow-on capital commitment from CapVest to drive organic engineering velocity and programmatic bolt-on acquisitions, the transaction ensures continuity through Grata’s co-founders, who will scale the asset as a dedicated business unit focused on expanding ARR and expanding wallet share within the global private equity and corporate advisory landscape.

Proximus Group entered into a binding agreement to sell its 92.7% stake in Be-Mobile to Arrive for an enterprise value of EUR170 million. The transaction allows Proximus to complete its EUR500 million divestment program two years ahead of the original 2027 schedule, leading the group to raise its total asset disposal target to EUR600 million. For Arrive, the acquisition significantly strengthens its footprint in the Benelux region and expands its service portfolio through Be-Mobile's specialized big data and AI capabilities. The deal remains subject to approval by the Belgian Interfederal Screening Committee (CFI) for foreign direct investments.

HAWK Infinity, a Norwegian investment company focusing on software companies in Scandinavia, has successfully acquired Digiseg, a Danish AdTech provider. The transaction is structured as a buyout where the existing management team and founders will retain their roles and continue to drive the operational business forward in a new strategic partnership with the sponsor. Clearwater acted as the exclusive sell-side financial adviser to the owners of the acquired entity. This transaction represents a highly strategic platform investment for HAWK Infinity, which operates with a long-term investment horizon. For the acquirer, securing a remarkably lean and highly scalable business with a proven post-cookie technology provides a significant competitive edge. The sponsor's deep industry expertise and available dry powder will serve to further support the company's existing growth trajectory, enabling accelerated market penetration and product development. The partnership allows the management team to leverage the acquirer's structural support and strategic sparring capabilities to navigate the next phase of expansion. This operation serves as a strong market signal regarding the ongoing sector consolidation within the digital advertising and AdTech verticals.

Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Informatica for a total consideration of $8 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Salesforce will pay $25 per share in cash to Informatica’s shareholders. This successful bid comes after a previous attempt in 2024, valued at approximately $11 billion, failed to materialize. Since that time, Informatica's market capitalization had decreased by 40%, allowing Salesforce to secure the asset at a more favorable valuation. Prior to this deal, the company was largely controlled by a consortium led by Permira and CPPIB, who took the firm private in 2015 before re,listing it in 2021. The strategic rationale for the acquisition is the deployment of a "performant and responsible agentic AI" platform. By combining Informatica’s data catalog, governance, and MDM capabilities with Salesforce’s Data Cloud, MuleSoft, and Tableau, the group aims to power its "Agentforce" initiative. This integration will allow autonomous agents to access high,quality, governed data to deliver more accurate and secure business outcomes.