LIVERAMP acquired by PUBLICIS GROUPE

CVC Capital Partners has announced an investment in Chess.com, the world’s largest online chess platform, alongside General Atlantic, the company’s longstanding investor, which will remain a shareholder. The transaction marks CVC’s entry as an investor in Chess.com to support the platform’s continued development and its expansion within the global chess community. The investment reflects CVC’s strategy of backing companies operating at the intersection of sports, digital entertainment, online communities and consumer experiences

The acquisition of m-work shifts Asys’s product perimeter from legacy time-and-attendance tracking into upstream collaborative workforce scheduling and hybrid physical asset optimization. Executed with follow-on programmatic M&A backing from CAPZA through its Growth Tech investment vehicle, this transaction accelerates Asys’s product roadmap by injecting native AI capabilities into its core scheduling engine to target pan-European corporate accounts. The industrial logic relies on immediate cross-sell dynamics, unlocking monetization opportunities for m-work’s module within Asys's established footprint of 1

LegalPlace has completed the full acquisition of its historical and primary competitor, Legalstart, marking a major consolidation event within the French LegalTech landscape. The transaction was financed as part of a significant capital increase by LegalPlace, backed by a consortium of investors including Move Capital Fund I, XAnge, and Eurazeo. The purchase of Legalstart's shares was settled entirely in cash. This strategic merger unites two of the most recognized platforms dedicated to online services for entrepreneurs, which had for years competed directly in the same market segment

Doctolib executed a strategic acquisition of Medicus, a UK-based developer of clinical software for the National Health Service (NHS), marking its official entry into the United Kingdom. This transaction represents a key milestone in Doctolib's European expansion, adding the UK as its fifth operational market alongside France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The acquisition is driven by a shared mission to address systemic challenges within healthcare, particularly the increasing demand for care and the significant administrative burden placed on medical professionals

The transaction represents a transition of ownership from a founder-led corporate structure to a sponsor-backed primary LBO. The core industrial rationale of the ownership transfer is to match the target's capital structure with its cross-border scaling ambitions, specifically accelerating market share gains in the high-volume North American life sciences software sector. The timing of the transaction reflects the inflection point where the target requires institutional private equity expertise and global capital to scale its commercial distribution network

Pan-European private equity investor Oakley Capital has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority equity stake in enterprise software provider XTEL. The transaction is being executed alongside existing shareholders Bain Capital and SilverTree Equity, with the latter remaining invested to actively support the company's next phase of growth. Evercore acted as the exclusive financial advisor to XTEL and the selling consortium throughout the transaction process. For Oakley Capital, the buyout is designed to leverage its extensive track record in backing European software champions to drive XTEL's international expansion into key growth markets such as Latin America and Asia-Pacific, while pursuing targeted M&A opportunities

Lattice Semiconductor has agreed to acquire AMI in a strategic transaction designed to create a comprehensive secure management and control platform for the technology industry. The acquisition is a key step in advancing Lattice's strategy to expand its market position in high-growth server, AI, and cloud applications. By combining Lattice's leadership in low-power programmable hardware (FPGAs) with AMI's deep expertise in platform firmware and infrastructure manageability software, the merged entity aims to offer integrated, system-level solutions

IKS Health has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the equity of TruBridge Inc. through its U.S. arm. The acquisition is a strategic move to create a comprehensive "system of record plus system of action" platform. The strategic rationale is driven by the desire to diversify the acquirer's portfolio into sticky, recurring SaaS-based Electronic Health Record (EHR) segments while deepening its penetration into the rural and community hospital market. By integrating TruBridge’s established EHR backbone with IKS Health’s proprietary AI-driven clinical enablement tools, the combined entity aims to solve complex operational challenges for healthcare organizations

The transaction involves the entry of Turenne Emergence into Kizeo’s capital, acquiring a ~20% minority stake through an equity investment of 10 million EUR. This growth LBO represents a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating the company's development trajectory over the next five years. The deal rationale is centered on supporting the target's ambitious growth plan, which includes doubling the firm's size through the expansion of its functional software coverage, pursuing international deployment, and evaluating potential external growth opportunities (buy-and-build)

The acquisition of Doctrine by the British listed group RELX represents a landmark transaction in the European LegalTech sector. The strategic rationale for RELX centers on the integration of Doctrine’s specialized AI capabilities into its global legal analytics portfolio, creating significant industrial synergies and reinforcing its dominance in the European market. The deal was finalized following a competitive auction process involving several high-profile private equity sponsors, but ultimately shifted toward an industrial buyer capable of leveraging the target’s advanced technology stack