Transactions - Tech, software & digital

SoLocal Group, a Euronext-listed digital marketing company, sold its Spanish subsidiary QDQ Media to AS Equity Partners.

Nets Group acquired PeP, a leading merchant acquirer in Poland with an installed base of more than 125,000 point-of-sales terminals, offering a broad set of payment solutions focused on the attractive SME segment. The transaction values PeP’s enterprise value at EUR 405 million.

Webissime, a French digital agency, acquired and merged with Open Linking.

Boss Industries, a French group dedicated to homeland security solutions, acquired Trovicor, a leading provider of turnkey end-to-end lawful interception and intelligence solutions.

Clairfield International Frankfurt/Warsaw assisted expondo, the fast-growing German/Polish e-commerce industrial procurement business, in a senior debt refinancing exercise.

Syscom AS, the leading independent provider of service management and security consulting solutions in Norway, was acquired by the US‐listed DXC Technology.

The management of DataExpert Holding II B.V., alongside private equity firm Quadrum Capital, acquired a majority stake in the company from Soestdijk Capital in an MBO transaction. Soestdijk Capital is managed by Committed Capital Management.

euromicron AG, a German‐listed technology group, issued new shares to Funkwerk AG, a leading provider of innovative communication, information and security systems.

DACE Zrt., owner of the leading online dating company in Hungary, was sold to Liechtenstein-based media company Russmedia.

Orange Group, through its Polish subsidiary Orange Poland, acquired 100% of the shares of Bluesoft, a market leader in comprehensive end-to-end IT services in Poland.

NPM Capital, the private equity company of the family-owned group SHV, acquired a 35% interest in Ohpen, a rapidly growing Dutch fintech company, from Amerborgh International. 

Priority Software, a company that develops ERPs for small-and-medium-enterprises, acquired Optimize Group, a Belgian ERP developer.

Nets Group, a market leader in the payments industry, established a strategic alliance with Przelewy24, one of the leading online payment service providers in the Polish market.

SIP.US LLC & SIPTRUNK Inc., a leading provider of on-demand, enterprise-class IP communications software solutions, was sold to BCM One.

GB Group (LON: GBG), completed its previously announced USD 300 million acquisition of IDology,a fast-growing provider of identity verification services.

BrainSHARE IT, provider of SaldeoSMART, a leading cloud solution for accounting practices and accounting departments of small and medium businesses in Poland, was sold to Visma, a major Nordic software provider operating in the business segments of SMB, enterprise, commerce solutions, custom solutions, and cloud infrastructure services.

Scalable Data Systems, a provider of business solutions in the Australian market, was sold to Sonata Software, a global technology company.

1881 Group, a provider of personal and corporate information, acquired Idium AS, a digital marketing agency.

BB Capital Investments acquired a majority stake in Sparkling Society, a developer of games for mobile devices. The game company will use the investment to further expand its position within the ‘city building games’ segment.