Mergers and Acquisitions

The deal brings together two major players in software and cloud solutions. Valued at $1.3 billion, it’s the largest pan-European transaction in two years and the only Swiss-led acquisition since 2022 to top the $1 billion mark.

The Jefferies 2025 Public Tech Conference brought together top bankers, investors, founders, and tech executives to discuss the sector’s key trends and developments. The insights below are drawn from interviews and panels with conference attendees. When tariff announcements rattled markets in early April, no sector took a bigger hit than technology. Public tech stocks fell

Both sponsors and strategics are eager to transact, and with the right conditions, many expect activity to pick up. The question is whether recent volatility will get in the way.

We sat down with Evan Osheroff, Managing Director, to explore what is happening in the CFO office today and its implications for software companies and investors.

We sat down with Peter Scheman, the global co-head of Jefferies Industrials, to discuss his take on the sector and what the Jefferies Industrials team is preparing for in Fall 2024 and beyond. 

Technology capital markets have been in a transaction winter since the end of 2021. That deep freeze appears to be ending and the field of prospective buyers is expanding.

In 2023, two-thirds of venture capital investment went into AI-related businesses.
Much like the widespread adoption of mobile technologies 15 years ago, AI is poised to radically reshape the private internet market. But how?

There is a burgeoning trend of multinational corporations (“MNC”) actively restructuring their China businesses through any number of divestitures and / or carve-outs to realign their balance sheets and maximize shareholder value.

Federal antitrust regulators are aggressively reviewing and challenging more M&A transactions than ever. What does this mean for private equity firms and their prospects?