All 8,979 M&A deals announced during 2015, sorted by deal value. Compare buyers, payment types, and prices across the full year.
| # | Acquirer | Acquired | Date | Type | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 |
Wood Mackenzie
Wood Mackenzie is a research and consultancy business for the energy, chemicals,…
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2015-05-19 | Acquisition | $2.8B | Deal → | |
| 102 |
Axis Communications AB
Axis offers innovative video surveillance and access control solutions, backed b…
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2015-02-10 | Acquisition | $2.8B | Deal → | |
| 103 |
ZS Pharma
ZS Pharma develops ion trap therapies for the treatment of life-threatening medi…
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2015-11-06 | Acquisition | $2.7B | Deal → | |
| 104 |
Advent Software, Inc.
SS&C Advent is a software company that develops software to automate portfolio a…
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2015-02-02 | Acquisition | $2.7B | Deal → | |
| 105 |
TSB Banking Group
TSB Banking Group is a retail bank that provides various personal and business b…
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2015-07-08 | Acquisition | $2.6B | Deal → | |
| 106 |
Recall Holdings
Recall is the leading global provider of digital and physical information manage…
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2015-04-28 | Acquisition | $2.6B | Deal → | |
| 107 |
PharMEDium Healthcare
PharMEDium Healthcare is a company that was acquired by AmerisourceBergen Corpor…
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2015-10-02 | Acquisition | $2.6B | Deal → | |
| 108 |
PMC-Sierra
PMC-Sierra, the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider,…
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2015-11-25 | Acquisition | $2.5B | Deal → | |
| 109 |
Capital Safety
One of the world's leading manufacturers of fall protection, confined space and …
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2015-06-23 | Acquisition | $2.5B | Deal → | |
| 110 |
iBwave
iBwave offers wireless services to its clients, including design, unity, mobile,…
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2015-03-31 | Acquisition | $2.5B | Deal → | |
| 111 |
MWI Veterinary Supply
Millard Wallace Ickes, DVM, founded MWI in Nampa, Idaho, in 1976 to address the …
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2015-01-12 | Acquisition | $2.5B | Deal → | |
| 112 |
Guardian Financial Services
Guardian Financial Services provides closed book consolidation and capital relea…
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2015-09-23 | Acquisition | $2.5B | Deal → | |
| 113 |
Nexi
Nexi is the player in Italy in providing card issuing services for credit, debit…
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2015-06-19 | Acquisition | $2.4B | Deal → | |
| 114 |
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor offers power analog, power discrete, and non-power semic…
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2015-11-18 | Acquisition | $2.4B | Deal → | |
| 115 |
zulily
Zulily is an online retailer that offers consumers with daily product deals.
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2015-08-17 | Acquisition | $2.4B | Deal → | |
| 116 |
Bluecoat
Blue Coat provides advanced enterprise security.
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2015-05-26 | Lbo | $2.4B | Deal → | |
| 117 |
Foundation Medicine
Foundation medicine is a molecular information company developing clinical diagn…
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2015-01-12 | Acquisition | $2.4B | Deal → | |
| 118 |
RAC
RAC has been consistently at the forefront of developing motoring services.
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2015-12-02 | Lbo | $2.3B | Deal → | |
| 119 |
TOP-TOY
TOP-TOY is a retailer in the Nordics of toys and other children’s products.
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2015-11-02 | Lbo | $2.3B | Deal → | |
| 120 |
R
Representaciones e Investigaciones Médicas (Rimsa)
Rimsa, a leading pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution company in Mexico
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2015-10-01 | Acquisition | $2.3B | Deal → | |
| 121 |
Shred-It
Shred-It is a document destruction provider.
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2015-07-16 | Acquisition | $2.3B | Deal → | |
| 122 |
H3C Technologies
H3C is a leading global supplier of IP-based products and solutions.
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2015-05-21 | Acquisition | $2.3B | Deal → | |
| 123 |
Ikaria
Ikaria is a critical care firm that develop innovative therapeutics and interven…
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2015-03-05 | Acquisition | $2.3B | Deal → | |
| 124 |
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EFS Midstream
EFS Midstream provides gas gathering, treating, compression and condensate proce…
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2015-06-01 | Acquisition | $2.1B | Deal → | |
| 125 |
ANN INC.
ANN INC., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a specialty retailer of wome…
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2015-05-18 | Acquisition | $2.1B | Deal → | |
| 126 |
A
Alent
British maker of chemicals and materials
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2015-07-13 | Acquisition | $2.1B | Deal → | |
| 127 |
Kythera Biopharmaceuticals
Kythera Biopharmaceuticals discovers, develops and commercializes novel prescrip…
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2015-06-17 | Acquisition | $2.1B | Deal → | |
| 128 |
Pace
Pace plc engages in the design, development, and distribution of digital receive…
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2015-04-22 | Acquisition | $2.1B | Deal → | |
| 129 |
Landmark Aviation
Provide an unsurpassed customer experience at every location in the Landmark Avi…
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2015-09-23 | Acquisition | $2.1B | Deal → | |
| 130 |
Welch Allyn
Welch Allyn is a manufacturer of medical diagnostic devices.
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2015-09-08 | Acquisition | $2.0B | Deal → | |
| 131 |
Cushman & Wakefield
Cushman & Wakefield is a real estate services firm that offers retail investment…
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2015-05-11 | Merge | $2.0B | Deal → | |
| 132 |
Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals
Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals discovers, develops and commercializes therapies for t…
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2015-11-02 | Acquisition | $2.0B | Deal → | |
| 133 |
Excel Trust
Excel Trust, Inc. is a retail focused real estate investment trust that primaril…
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2015-04-10 | Lbo | $2.0B | Deal → | |
| 134 |
Cordis
Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company, has pioneered less invasive tre…
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2015-03-02 | Acquisition | $2.0B | Deal → | |
| 135 |
Envision Pharmaceutical
Envision Pharmaceutical provides pharmacy benefits management services such as c…
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2015-02-11 | Acquisition | $2.0B | Deal → | |
| 136 |
Diamond Foods
Diamond Foods is a snack food and culinary nut company focused on making innovat…
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2015-10-28 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 137 |
Getrag
Getrag is one of the largest independent makers of transmission systems for pass…
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2015-07-16 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 138 |
Wincor Nixdorf
Wincor Nixdorf AG is a Germany-based company that provides information technolog…
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2015-11-23 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 139 |
Felix Energy
Felix Energy LLC is a private exploration and production company focused on crea…
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2015-11-07 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 140 |
Veda Advantage
Veda is a data analytics company and the leading provider of credit information …
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2015-11-01 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 141 |
Campus Crest Communities
Campus Crest Communities (NYSE:CCG) is a leading developer, builder, owner and m…
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2015-10-19 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 142 |
TargetPharmacy
Target Pharmacy offers pharmacy and clinics services.
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2015-06-15 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 143 |
Forcepoint
Forcepoint is a data protection cybersecurity firm that helps businesses in secu…
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2015-04-18 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 144 |
Nextel Mexico
Nextel Mexico Added
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2015-01-27 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 145 |
SourceGas
SourceGas is a natural gas local distribution utility that services nearly 415,0…
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2015-07-13 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 146 |
Telx
Telx provides interconnection, colocation and business exchange services for the…
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2015-07-14 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 147 |
Brit
Brit is a market global specialty insurer and reinsurer, focused on underwriting…
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2015-02-17 | Acquisition | $1.9B | Deal → | |
| 148 |
Montpelier Re Holdings
Montpelier Re Holdings Providing customized and innovative insurance and reinsur…
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2015-03-31 | Acquisition | $1.8B | Deal → | |
| 149 |
National Penn Bancshares
National Penn offers a wide range of services, including personal and business b…
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2015-08-18 | Acquisition | $1.8B | Deal → | |
| 150 |
Erico
Erico designs and manufactures fixing and fastening products and couplers under …
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2015-08-17 | Acquisition | $1.8B | Deal → |