Press releases, current trends, perspectives

From 15 - 17 November 2018 the AICA members from Europe, Middle East and Africa met for the 9th AICA EMEA Conference. The ARTHOS managing partners Arne Tödt and Arno Pätzold participated and contributed to the event.

Data Respons (Oslo, Norway) acquires 100% of the shares in the R&D services companies IT Sonix and XPURE (Leipzig, Germany) and strengthens its position within SW technology, smart embedded solutions and IoT in Germany.

ARTHOS M&A-Newsletter – Vision Technology 10/2018: Vision M&A transactions became more complex as participants are investing more time in capabilities than focussing on financial results only. For professional M&A support consider hiring an M&A expert with industry knowledge.

The annual AICA global meeting took place from 17 - 19 May 2018 in Miami with the overall theme “cooperation and collaboration”. Arne Tödt, chairman of AICA’s board of directors until May 2018, and Arno Pätzold, member of the collaboration task force, participated.

ARTHOS M&A-Newsletter – Vision Technology 03/2018: Since beginning of February Vision Technology Peers settled down, but valuations are still high. Professional market participants take advantage of the current situation, consider a potential sale of your business.

Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany), a world leader in semiconductor solutions, acquires Merus Audio (Copenhagen, Denmark) to strengthen Infineon´s ability to offer customers fully integrated system solutions for smart speakers.

Data Respons ASA (Oslo, Norway) acquires 100% of the shares in the software technology and R&D services company EPOS CAT GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany) and strengthens its position in CAT, R&D IT services, software development and systems integration.

This year’s meeting of AICA members from Europe, Middle East and Africa took place in Cape Town to discuss new international M&A projects and improve business collaborations. Arne Tödt, since 2016 chairman of AICA’s board of directors, and Arno Pätzold participated.

ARTHOS M&A-Newsletter – Vision Technology 10/2017: Stock market prices for vision companies increased by 40% within the last year, which is even more than for other tech areas. To a minor extend this is based on better earnings, but mainly because higher multiples are paid.

XOVI GmbH (Cologne, Germany), a globally market leading SEO analytics software suite has been acquired by Plesk (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), the leading WebOps platform to build, secure and run websites, applications and cloud businesses.