Firmex focuses on providing virtual data room solutions for managing corporate transactions and financial compliance. It has over 200,000 users worldwide and has conducted over 10,000 deals in the last 18 months. As part of its value-added services, Firmex offers an educational webinar series to its expanding community. The provided document discusses an upcoming webinar on trends in technology M&A and the outlook for the remainder of 2012, which will be presented by Cyrus Lam, a managing director at KPMG Corporate Finance LLC.
2012 deal environment still murky, with two-thirds of respondents expecting the recovery in 2013 or later Companies that survived the economic downfall are leaner and better prepared to weather uncertain conditions U.S. election cycle, tax uncertainty and European economic woes will have significant impact on how companies pursue transactions Conquering due diligence issues continues to challenge dealmakers Interest in emerging markets still present, but stability of developed markets continues to hold allure
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Enterprise SoftwareThe market has seen a few robust deal values in the enterprise software industry since Q2-11, as evident by the sporadic peaks in Q3-11 and Q1-12Average revenue multiples have gradually increased from 1.7x in Q4-10 to 2.4x for Q1-12, while average EBITDA multiples have increased dramatically from 8.2x in Q3-10 to 21.4x in Q3-11, until receding in Q1-12The largest recent software transaction was Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Autonomy in August 2011 for ≈$11bBPO and IT ServicesThe market has seen relatively sustained deal values in the BPO and IT services industry with a few robust quartersAverage revenue multiples have been less volatile than the software industry, remaining between 1.2x in Q4-09 to 1.7x Q1-12, while average EBITDA multiples have gradually decreased during 2011
1The company said that its purchase of NDS would complement its Videoscape entertainment delivery platform, taking it into emerging markets including China and India where NDS has existing customers2Transaction will increase Quest’s flexibility to drive innovation across its product lines and execute its long-term strategyInsight's track record of success with leading infrastructure software companies ensures it will be a strong partner and will increase value to all stakeholders3Taleo’s expertise in SaaS-based talent management solutions enhances Oracle’s cloud platformCreates a comprehensive cloud offering for companies to manage their HR operations, optimize costs and enhance cross functional collaboration4Vista plans to combine the British company, with Turaz, one of its existing companies that makes trade and risk-management softwareThe combination of Misys and Turaz, creates the global leader in core banking, treasury management, capital markets and enterprise risk management software5Accelerate SAP’s momentum as a provider of cloud apps, platforms & infrastructureTransaction establishes an advanced end-to-end offering of cloud and on-premise solutions for managing all business processes6Re-positions HP as a leader in the large growing enterprise information management spaceInherent value of unstructured and structured data is an exploding growth opportunity7As a result of the combination, current and future customers will benefit from a broader portfolio of products and services as well as collaboration, creativity and sharing of best practices across an expanded global community of education professionals8Blackboard’s experience as a leader in education focused solutions complements Providence Equity Partners’ extensive education industry portfolio investmentsBlackboard will utilize Providence Equity Partners’ deep understanding of the intl education marketplace & will provide educational facilities with cutting edge technology9Telvent’s strong positioning in infrastructures and best-in-class software & IT capabilities fits particularly well with Schneider Electric energy and process management expertise and global presence10With the addition of Savvis, CenturyLink will achieve global scale as a managed hosting and colocation provider and will accelerate its ability to deliver quality managed hosting and cloud capabilities to its business customers. The combination of CenturyLink's hosting and network assets with Savvis' proven solutions in colocation, managed hosting and cloud services substantially enhances CenturyLink's capabilities and provides the company with a solid platform for future growth
Investment banks:451 Research Group, Corum Group“Convergence between hardware, software and services will continue to add products to the same sales chains,” said Bozdog, who is based in Palo Alto, California. (Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-06/most-takeovers-since-2007-seen-spurred-by-data-torrent-tech.html)2) “Most established companies are worried about disruptive technologies,” said Chris McCabe, co-head of investment banking and head of technology, media and telecommunications banking at Cowen. “They want to make sure their company captures that growth through M&A rather than seeing that growth go to a start-up.”(Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thestreet/2012/01/30/bankers-bullish-on-tech-ma-for-2012/)3) “Big data, mobile and cloud technologies will drive “bold investments and fateful decisions,” market researcher IDC said in a recent report. The volume of digital information may balloon from 2.7 zettabytes this year -- the equivalent of filling 2.7 billion of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s priciest desktop iMacs to capacity -- to 8 zettabytes by 2015, according to IDC.” (Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-06/most-takeovers-since-2007-seen-spurred-by-data-torrent-tech.html)4) Signal Hill 2012 M&A Outlook - Impact of social media on enterprise software solutions - We expect there will be expanded focus on social enterprisesolution providers. Smaller firms will be acquired by larger, less agile companies looking to remain relevant and enter the social media space (Radian6/Salesforce.com, Everyday Hero/Blackbaud);Industry Research:1) “Volume last year was much higher than in 2010, and we expect this year to be the same or slightly larger”, said Jon Woodruff, co-head of technology investment banking, Goldman Sachs Group-“This year’s technology deal volume could be bigger than last year’s and 2007’s,” said Chet Bozdog, global head of technology investment banking at Bank of America Corp. Industry takeovers in 2007 reached $264.4 billion, the biggest year since 2000’s record high of $585.2 billion, data compiled by Bloomberg show. “Convergence between hardware, software and services will continue to add products to the same sales chains,” said Bozdog, who is based in Palo Alto, California. (Source: http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1377-aKE1QOeolAX4-5S0JK32RO1ASKBJ48SUVEAKOK3)-Corum Group Research on 2012 M&A Outlook: Predicts M&A deal $ volume of $250 billion2) 451 Research Group, Bloomberg interview on Tech M&A in 2012 (Source: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19431481)3) Source: Corum Group Research on 2012 M&A Outlook4) Signal Hill 2012 M&A Outlook - Increased interest in vertically focused solutions - Historically, larger entities looking to gain domain expertise in newindustries have reached for vertical application targets. We expect companies will look to these acquisitions in 2012 as customers continue to demand vertical functionality “out-of-the-box” (Cúram and DemandTec/IBM).
“Volume last year was much higher than in 2010, and we expect this year to be the same or slightly larger”, said Jon Woodruff, co-head of technology investment banking, Goldman Sachs Group (Source: http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1377-aKE1QOeolAX4-5S0JK32RO1ASKBJ48SUVEAKOK3)-“This year’s technology deal volume could be bigger than last year’s and 2007’s,” said Chet Bozdog, global head of technology investment banking at Bank of America Corp. Industry takeovers in 2007 reached $264.4 billion, the biggest year since 2000’s record high of $585.2 billion, data compiled by Bloomberg show. “Convergence between hardware, software and services will continue to add products to the same sales chains,” said Bozdog, who is based in Palo Alto, California. (Source: http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1377-aKE1QOeolAX4-5S0JK32RO1ASKBJ48SUVEAKOK3)-Cloud computing, which allows companies to access information over the Internet from external data centers, and desktops’ shift to mobile devices, will continue to be “huge multiyear trends,” said Drago Rajkovic, head of technology mergers and acquisitions at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Source: http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1377-aKE1QOeolAX4-5S0JK32RO1ASKBJ48SUVEAKOK3)-2012 has a perfect storm of trends in disruptive technology, tax changes, industry consolidation, new buyers, and record cash reserves held by major technology companies, all of which will make it best year since the dot-com era for M&A in software, Internet, IT and related technologies,” said Bruce Milne, Corum CEO and ‘Selling Up Selling Out’ Conference Chair. (Source: http://www.datasite.com/2012-perfect-storm-technology-mergers-acquisitions042.htm, http://www.prweb.com/releases/techma/sandiego/prweb9209150.htm)-” Big data, mobile and cloud technologies will drive “bold investments and fateful decisions,” market researcher IDC said in a recent report. The volume of digital information may balloon from 2.7 zettabytes this year -- the equivalent of filling 2.7 billion of Apple Inc.’s priciest desktop iMacs to capacity -- to 8 zettabytes by 2015, according to IDC. -IBM, Mark Loughridge (CFO): “I do think the acquisition play is a good one, and I do think the market’s in a more reasonable position.”, “Our focus on key growth initiatives and investments in innovation are enabling us to expand into new markets, and capitalize on trends like analytics and cloud” (Source: http://seekingalpha.com/article/320777-international-business-machines-management-discusses-q4-2011-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=qanda)-BMC, 10K report (May-11): We continue to invest in our technology leadership, including in the areas of cloud computing, virtualization and software-as-a-service. In addition to our ongoing product development efforts, we consummated two strategic acquisitions within our ESM segment during fiscal 2011, by acquiring GridApp Systems and the software business of Neptuny S.r.l. The former expands our ESM offerings to include advanced database automation for physical, virtual and cloud environments while the latter expands our capabilities in capacity management, enhancing our ESM portfolio and cloud management capabilities.