Acquisitions

The US equity fund and asset manager Lone Star is said to have received two offers for Novobanco – one from the French group BPCE (Banque Populaire, Caisse d’Epargne, and Natixis [...]

The Sino-Portuguese construction and engineering group Mota-Engil has completed the acquisition of the 50% it didn’t have in the Brazilian construction company Empresa Construtora Brasil (ECB) [...]

If Spain’s CaixaBank snaps up Novobanco and merges it with BPI, it would make the latter the largest clearing bank in Portugal with assets of €83.5Bn, overtaking Millennium bcp which in 2024 had [...]

The Dutch group Conclusion, which bought Novabase’s recruitment business for €51 million, is back with a shopping list in Portugal. The companies services supply company held by private equity [...]

Portugal’s Finances minister, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento has expressed reservations over a possible acquisition bid for Novobanco from Spain’s Caixabank. The minister does not believe it would be a [...]

Médis Serviços de Saúde (Medis Health Services), an Ageas Portugal Group company, has signed an agreement to acquire Fisio Share, a leader in the physiotherapy and rehabilitation medicine areas [...]

The Spanish bank Caixabank, which in Portugal owns the bank BPI, has hired Deloitte to help it to decide if it will make a move to acquire Portugal’s Novobanco according to the Spanish news [...]

Hipoges, a distressed assets management entity for Southern Europe, is looking to buy real estate development companies in Portugal and Spain. According to Jornal Económico, António Nogueira [...]

Feedzai, the Portuguese company that has developed an AI-native fraud and financial crime prevention platform, is to acquire the Australian company DemystData which has developed an external data [...]

Portugal’s private national grid company REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais, has acquired the Chilean electricity transmission company Transmisora de Energía Nacimiento (TENSA) for US$71.4 [...]