Spotlight
Spotlight
An archive of past spotlight issues.
The martinwolf team tracks noteworthy mergers and acquisitions, and offers
commentary on issues that impact our industry.
19 Mar 2018
CACI Makes Competing Bid for CSRA to Disrupt General Dynamics’ Deal
Virginia-based government contractor CACI (NYSE: CACI) announced Sunday its bid to buy federal solutions provider CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) for ~$7.2B, topping General Dynamics' $6.8B bid...
20 Feb 2018
ConvergeOne, Soon to Go Public, Acquires Arrow Electronics’ Systems Integration Business
Ahead of its imminent IPO, ConvergeOne announced last Thursday its agreement to acquire Arrow Systems Integration, a subsidiary of Arrow Electronics that specializes in unified...
12 Feb 2018
General Dynamics to Buy Government IT Contractor CSRA in Nearly $10B Deal
U.S. defense contractor General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) announced today its intent to buy federal solutions provider CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) for ~$6.8B. The deal, which includes...
31 Jan 2018
Fujifilm to Take Over Xerox for $6.1B, Creating New $18B Company
Fujifilm announced today it will take over Xerox (NYSE: XRX) for $6.1B using bank debt, purchasing a 50.1 percent stake in the existing joint venture...
31 Jan 2018
SAP Acquires CallidusCloud for $2.4B
Europe's largest software company SAP (NYSE:SAP) announced yesterday that it had acquired cloud-computing firm CallidusCloud (Nasdaq: CALD) for $36 a share, a total of...
29 Jan 2018
CNBC: Dell Considering Reverse-Merger with VMware in What Could Be the Biggest Deal in Tech Industry
CNBC reported today that Dell Technologies, the world's largest privately held technology company, is considering a reverse-merger with VMware (NYSE: VMW), the ~$60B cloud computing...
27 Dec 2017
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year – martinwolf Annual Letter
2017 was a strong year for our firm, for the IT industry and for the US economy. I hope you’ll join me in looking back at some of the instrumental developments of 2017...
19 Dec 2017
ConvergeOne Acquires AOS
On December 18, IT services provider ConvergeOne announced that it had acquired IT consulting group Alexander Open Systems (AOS). The transaction adds to ConvergeOne's Microsoft...
04 Dec 2017
ConvergeOne to go Public in 2018 Following Merger with Forum
On December 1, IT services provider ConvergeOne announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with blank check company Forum Merger Corporation (Nasdaq: FMCI)...