We keep you informed about current developments and trends in the international M&A market, successfully completed transactions, and our practical M&A workshops for business owners.
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Q3 2025 news: M&A Autumn 2025: deals, drama, and a dash of optimism
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Q2 2025 News: Today’s landscape
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ICFN 2025 annual conference in Palma de Majorca
International Corporate Finance Network (ICFN) 2025 annual conference took place on May 25th and 26th in Palma de Majorca and was, once again, a great success.
Each year, the members of our network from 18 countries convene to provide their colleagues with insights into the M&A markets of their respective countries, discuss economic and industry trends, and explore opportunities for cross-border transactions and collaboration.
This year, our network member JOAN CERDÁ TAX CONSULTANCY and their whole team provided the ideal setting for this event, with exclusive meeting facilities, great dining experiences and breathtaking views of Palma.
From ICFN, we want to thank them for their hospitality and also thank the various members of ICFN for attending the engaging event.
To be continued next year!
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Q1 2025 News: Global M&A
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Transaction News: EXG advises the shareholders of sedevo IT Consulting on the sale of their shareholding with a roll-over to EWERK Group
EXG advises the shareholders of sedevo IT Consulting on the sale of their shareholding to EWERK Group, a portfolio company of NORD Holding, to support a joint growth strategy.
Founded in 2008, sedevo specializes in cybersecurity consulting, software development, and the implementation of end-to-end solutions, with extensive experience in the critical infrastructure (KRITIS) sector. sedevo serves numerous clients, including key government institutions.
By integrating sedevo IT Consulting, EWERK Group significantly strengthens its service portfolio in IT security consulting, development, and operations. This strategic step positions EWERK Group as a powerful provider with over 230 qualified experts, focusing on digital and secure solutions for critical infrastructure operators – made in Germany.
Together, sedevo IT Consulting and EWERK Group are committed to establish EWERK as the leading IT and cyber security service provider for critical infrastructures in Germany. EXG acted as exclusive M&A advisor to the shareholders of sedevo.
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Q3 2024 News: Majorca Goes M&A in May 2025
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Q2 2024 News: The Olympics issue
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ICFN summit in Lisbon
Throughout May 26th and 27th, 2024, ICFN International Corporate Finance Network held in Lisbon its annual meeting of partners during which firms from 16 countries shared the latest M&A news and industry insights in each country and exchanged ideas on cross-border deal opportunities.
Thanks to the phantastic collaboration with Lisbon-based ENES CABRAL we also had time to enjoy the wonderful Lisbon hospitality in the company of our dear network partners.
We are already counting down the days until our next global meeting in 2025.
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AT Swiss Ventures from Switzerland joins ICFN
Strengthening our global network. It is with great pleasure that we welcome to the International Corporate Finance Network the Swiss firm AT SWISS VENTURES. www.atswiss.vc.
AT Swiss Ventures is a global investment and advisory firm and combines a wide and collective experience in financial advisory, M&A, strategy consulting, and private equity. The leadership team also has extensive operational experience. AT Swiss Ventures is supported by a team of field experts in many industry verticals, which allows us to uniquely position our clients in terms of their people, business models and technology to the most appropriate investors, strategic acquirers and financial counterparties. AT Swiss Ventures is supporting both buy-side and sell-side transactions as well as value creation plans development and Post-merger integration.
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Brazil M&A market scenario
The expectation of the Brazilian capital market is that corporate transactions will reach greater momentum in 2024, after declines in business volumes observed in the last two years.
According to data from PwC, the number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Brazil fell 17.3% in 2023, totaling 1,287 announcements, 45% of which were concentrated in the TMT segment. Despite the drop, this is a volume considered historically significant for the country, which in 2020 renewed the local record with 1,038 transactions. In 2021, Brazil reached the highest historical volume of M&A, with 1,659 deals announced.
There are still some important challenges to improve the economic scenario in Brazil, mainly due to political and fiscal issues, in addition to a domestic credit market with still restricted supply, but the country has Inflation expectations that are apparently better anchored and has already recorded successive falls in the country’s basic interest rate (SELIC) at the latest meetings of the Central Bank of Brazil.
After turbulent presidential elections at the end of 2022, the M&A market in Brazil began 2023 on hold, evaluating the impacts of the new government’s initial measures, and only began to observe a more vigorous increase in M&A activity in the third quarter, when 405 deals were complete, an increase of 9.46% compared to the same period in 2022, as reported by KPMG.
The prospects for this year promise to begin to awaken the appetite of international investors for selected opportunities in the 9th largest economy in the world.
Post by Daniel Rivera, ELIT CAPITAL