Acquisitions

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 [...]

International Paper’s packaging factory Cartovar in Ovar looks set to be acquired by the German group Palm together with four other assets that the US company agreed to sell in order to get [...]

AVK has acquired Pixel Light, in a strategic acquisition that marks a decisive step in consolidating its leadership in the audiovisual sector in Portugal. “This acquisition, which will mark the [...]

Portugal’s Brisa Group is to buy a 25% share of tolls and mobile charging services company Ascendi, effectively giving it a 100% control of the company and of the Via Verde payment system. The [...]

The Portuguese private healthcare provider CUF, which has a string of hospitals up and down the country, announced on Friday that it had signed a contract to acquire 75% of Grupo HPA Saúde. [...]

Glintt Global has acquired 100% of the capital of Prológica – Sistemas Informáticos, in a “fundamental strategic step” to clearly take the lead in the health data sector” in Portugal and [...]

If Novobanco were to be sold to a competitor in Portugal (read Caixa Geral de Depósitos or BCP), the competition authority would likely impose “remedies”. This is according to the President of [...]