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.
24 Feb 2017
Novitex and SourceHOV Agree to Merge, Become Exela Technologies
Earlier this week, SourceHOV, Novitex, and acquisition company Quinpario Acquisition Corp. 2 (Nasdaq: QPAC, QPACW, QPACU) announced that they were combining to form Exela Technologies...
25 Jan 2017
AppDynamics To Be Acquired by Cisco
In a surprise announcement late yesterday, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) revealed that it was acquiring application monitoring company AppDynamics. The deal supplants AppDynmaics' plans to...
20 Jan 2017
SMS Systems Maintenance Services Merges with Curvature
Third-party IT services giants Systems Maintenance Services (SMS) and Curvature announced yesterday that they will merge. The resulting company, SMS | Curvature, will be a global...
18 Jan 2017
HPE To Acquire SimpliVity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced yesterday that it signed a definitive agreement to purchase hyper-converged infrastructure startup SimpliVity for $650 million in cash, subject...
13 Jan 2017
martinwolf Turns 20 – Happy Anniversary!
Today, martinwolf celebrates our 20th anniversary as a firm. As I wrote in our annual letter sent out at the end of December, it has...
23 Dec 2016
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year – martinwolf Annual Letter
2016 was our 20th year of operations, and we knew from the beginning it was going to be a big year. But no one, least of all, us...
06 Dec 2016
Optiv to be Acquired by KKR
Private equity investor KKR (NYSE: KKR) announced today that it was acquiring security solution provider Optiv, Inc. from fellow private equity giant The Blackstone Group...
22 Nov 2016
Optiv Files for IPO
Security solution provider Optiv, Inc. filed an S-1 registration filing with the SEC Friday, announcing its intent to sell shares on the NYSE under the...
21 Nov 2016
Presidio Reportedly Close to Filing IPO
IT Solution Provider Presidio Holdings is reportedly considering an upcoming IPO filing, which may occur as early as later this week. The IPO would value...