Find out about the latest mergers and acquisitions, as well as the latest rounds of investments in leading companies from translation services to language technology
Madrid-based LSP Seprotec takes on new majority owner as Spain’s Nazca Capital becomes latest private equity firm to enter language services industry. Continue reading
TransPerfect has refinanced a USD 450m credit facility secured in 2019, with a new lower-interest term loan and revolving credit line amounting to USD 500m. Continue reading
As Facebook and Google pour their own money into research on speech translation, investors outside the language industry turn their attention to multilingual voice assistants. Continue reading
Six days after it acquired Nordic LSP Semantix, TransPerfect enters digital marketing space with acquisition of Webcertain; CEO Phil Shawe on its ‘unique’ place in the organization’s M&A game plan. Continue reading
One of Europe’s largest private equity firms enters language industry, buys majority stake in Denmark’s LanguageWire. PE firm to take active role as majority owner. Continue reading
Toppan Digital Language completes first M&A with acquisition of fellow London LSP GlobaLexicon. President Christophe Djaouani shares candid take on current M&A environment. Continue reading
Texas-based interpreting software provider, Boostlingo, secures investment from US-based PE firm Mainsail Partners. CEO says funds will go toward customer support, people, product. Continue reading
US-based clinical research provider WCG acquires VeraSci, a provider of e-clinical software and translation, for USD 330m; plans Nasdaq IPO. Continue reading
After four decades of Gould-family ownership, UK-based language service provider thebigword sells majority stake to private equity firm Susquehanna Private Capital (SPC). Continue reading
TransPerfect makes a major foray into Northern European translation and interpreting by acquiring market leader Semantix from its private equity owners. Continue reading
Super agency Welocalize acquires German-based language service provider NLG to expand medical devices portfolio and boost revenues in life sciences to ca. USD 50m. Continue reading
Argos Multilingual acquires Ireland-based linguistic quality assurance (LQA) provider Chillistore Technologies for ca. USD 2m. Continue reading
US-based language service provider, Big Language Solutions, acquires London-based life sciences specialist, Dora Wirth Languages (DWL). Continue reading
Translated secures USD 25m from PE firm Ardian, earning the Italy-based language service provider a nine-figure valuation as it plans to boost research into human-in-the-loop translation. Continue reading
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