Posts tagged: Informa

Deals, Deals, Deals ... in a bear market - Part 38

Thursday, 9 March 2023, 9:53 pm

There are plenty of gloomy dealmakers out there as deal volumes are generally down compared with the previous two years.

Still, that doesn't there is nothing going on.

FTSE 100-listed Informa, for example, today annouced the $940 million purchase of rival Tarsus from super secretive private equity firm Charterhouse. Below is the link to the press release:..

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Cash calls - who is next?

Friday, 17 April 2020, 8:09 am

Betaville is in a bit of a grump.

Now, you might ask why given what's going on in the world. Well, yes, that's fair enough - there are more important things happening in the world than the daily cut and thrust of unveiling the secret deals going down in the City of London...

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Ten years on UBM and Informa are back at it...

Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 5:25 pm

Ten years ago I broke the story about how UBM and Informa were in merger talks in The Sunday Telegraph's business section. It was a piece I was particularly proud of as it took a lot of investigative journalism to stack up. Below is the link:..

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Tags: UBM, Informa