On 31 December 2018, we learned of a couple of corporate finance transactions by the Typsa Group. This prompted us to take a look at where the engineering companies sector stands and what kind of deals have been done recently.


On 31 December 2018, we learned of a couple of corporate finance transactions by the Typsa Group. This prompted us to take a look at where the engineering companies sector stands and what kind of deals have been done recently.

We wanted to analyse the marketplace sector in depth and we have come across an active niche in corporate finance, the second-hand marketplaces. In this new post we have talked about the round of financing that the Mexican GoTrendier has received and about the sale of the most significant companies in the sector.
After observing the movements in the sector, we analyse the most significant and confirmed company sales in the last year 2018.

We analyse the most recent operations of the giant Amazon in the purchase of companies. The company, both through its main company and through other divisions such as Amazon Pay or Amazon Web Services, has invested more than 2,000 million dollars in 2018.

We talk about Grabango, a company that enables the implementation of an automatic payment system in physical shops. On 9 January we learned about the Californian company's round of funding, led by Propel VC.
After observing the movements in the sector, we analyse the most significant and confirmed company sales in the last year 2018.
We talk about Ardian, the French global private equity firm, and its latest IT buyout.
We know how big an impact the smart energy sector is having on the economy, but are your companies being active in corporate finance processes? We answer this question for you.

We analyse Google's most important corporate finance acquisitions in the last year. We talk about one of the most famous technology companies in the world that has to keep abreast of what is happening in its sector in order not to be left behind. That is why since 2001 it has confirmed 232 investments in company acquisitions.

We talk about the Canadian international consulting firm CGI and its recent buyout activity. Discover with us some interesting facts about the company, its acquisition strategy and its latest acquisitions carried out since 2016.
The Spanish startup Ledmotive closed a financing round of €1.85 million on 14 December. We are talking about a technology company specialising in the development of natural or artificial lighting. In a final section we analyse the sale of the most relevant companies in the sector at an international level.

France's Bertin Technologies is the latest company sale victim for our corporate finance experts. On 20 December, we learned of the sale of Bertin's business line to the Spanish company CT Ingenieros.

We take a corporate finance look at the most recent buyout of Capgemini, one of the world's leading providers of consulting, technology, outsourcing and professional services. We talk about a company active in buyouts, with a total of 25 investments in the last 10 years. Discover with us its last five acquisitions since 2017.

Last December we met NewCo, the new joint venture of Autocasión Hoy and Autoscout24 España. The Vocento Group will lead this association of companies dedicated to the online classification of cars in Spain.
In a final section, we will mention the most relevant international sales of companies in the sector.