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Berkery Noyes has released its Software Industry M&A report for half year 2013. Transaction volume decreased three percent over the past six months. Deal value remained flat, totaling $29.56 billion year-to-date. The median revenue multiple moved slightly from 2.1x to 2.0x, while the median EBITDA multiple increased from 10.4x to 12.5x. Financial sponsors in the… View Article

Berkery Noyes’ latest white paper covers some of the factors influencing M&A activity in the Healthcare Information and Technology (“HIT”) sector. Healthcare IT has remained a bright spot in the macro M&A market. For instance, transaction volume improved 11% from the beginning of 2011 through the end of 2012. Deal value increased 30%, totaling approximately… View Article

Peter Ognibene, Managing Director at Berkery Noyes, has written a white paper on M&A trends in the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) market. GRC M&A volume improved 17 percent from the beginning of 2011 through the end of 2012. This was mentioned in our previous blog post. 82 percent of GRC transactions in 2012 were… View Article

According to Berkery Noyes’ latest data, transaction volume in the Information Industry decreased two percent since Q4 2012. Deal flow in the latter part of 2012 was driven by several factors, including an expected rise in capital gains taxes in the beginning of 2013.  Transaction value decreased 62 percent, from $45.3 billion in Q4 2012… View Article

Berkery Noyes’ Online and Mobile Industry report showed an improvement in M&A activity throughout several market segments. Overall deal volume increased three percent relative to the prior quarter. However, transaction value decreased 50 percent, from $15.8 billion in Q4 2012 to $7.9 billion in Q1 2013. The SaaS/ASP segment experienced the largest quarterly rise in… View Article