Acuris Group

Founded in 2000 and based in New York, US, Mergermarket Limited operates as an online portal that provides information and data on M&A transactions, private equity, wealth management, and life sciences to investors, financial institutions, and law firms. The company has M&A journalist teams based in 67 locations in Europe, the Middle East, North America, South America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as approximately 175,000 subscribers. Mergermarket Limited is part of Acuris which is a financial data company specializing in M&A intelligence, owned by ION Investment Group. In May 2019, ION Trading UK Limited, a portfolio company of Carlyle Group, acquired a majority stake in Mergermarket Limited from BC Partners and GIC for 1.

35 billion. BC Partners and the company's management reinvested in the company. Mergermarket Limited works with clients from a range of sectors including investment banks, family offices, private equity firms, accountants, and law firms, mainly providing a business development tool developed for the field of M&A. It offers an online platform with a range of features such as trend reports, M&A deals, league tables, M&A and private equity profiles, as well as ECM and IPO data.

It focuses on pre-event predictive data intelligence, utilizing more than 3,000 international media sources and providing a deals database for M&A analysis.