Acquisitions

Portugal’s Competition Authority (AdC) has given the green light to the purchase of companies Grudisul, Alcigarve, Tabacaria L. Lisboa and Sobral & Renato by the Grupo Bel. These companies [...]

Portugal’s Competition Authority (AdC) is investigating an increase in prices in the private health sector due to the recent mergers and acquisitions seen in the sector, with share acquisitions [...]

The US translation technology company TransPerfect has acquired the Portuguese automated translation company Unbabel for an undisclosed sum. TransPerfect is the largest translation company in the [...]

The Portuguese industrial group Martifer is up for grabs through a Public Acquisition Offer (PAO) as its shares on the Euronext Lisbon stock market have tumbled from €8 in 2007 when the company [...]

EDP Renováveis has signed a Purchase and Sale Agreement with Prosolia Energy for the sale of a 100% shareholding in a 190 MWac (229 MWdc) solar portfolio in Spain, for an estimated Enterprise [...]

The Macquarie Group is close to buying a minority stake in the Luz Saúde hospital group, beating the competition from CVC Capital and KKR, Bloomberg reports, citing sources close to the matter. [...]

The Bank of Portugal (BoP), which is lead by outgoing governor Mário Centeno, has signed a contract to invest €192 million in its new headquarters at Entrecampos in Lisbon. According to [...]

The Brisa Group, which runs many of Portugal’s motorway concessions and pioneered the cashless electronic Via Verde toll payments system in the 1990s, is in exclusive negotiations for the total [...]

Spanish bank BBVA has decided to press ahead with its Public Acquisition Offer (PAO) in a hostile takeover bid for its rival Sabadell despite the Spanish government’s misgivings. The bank led by [...]

Movers and shakers in Portugal’s financial sector are said to be satisfied with the sale of Novobanco to France’s BPCE Group, considering it “good for the other banks” since it will reduce the [...]