Sability Acquires LeadingEdge Payroll Group

G&A Partners Acquires Leading Edge Payroll and HR Solutions

April 22, 2020

Staffing & HR

G&A Partners, a national professional employer organization (PEO), acquired Leading Edge Payroll and HR Solutions, LLC, a Wisconsin-based HR outsourcing and payroll provider. The deal expands G&A Partners' Midwest presence, adds client accounts and talent, and retains Leading Edge's owner Laurie Stueber as a senior HR advisor while keeping client-facing employees in place.

Deel Acquires PayGroup Limited

November 21, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Deel completed its AU$121 million acquisition of APAC-based payroll and HCM provider PayGroup Limited, which has been delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange. The deal expands Deel’s payroll and HCM capabilities and APAC footprint—PayGroup processes roughly AU$12 billion in payroll annually for over 3,000 businesses and was targeting AU$39 million ARR while being EBITDA positive.

H.I.G. Capital to Acquire Alight's Payroll and Professional Services Business

March 21, 2024

Professional Services

H.I.G. Capital (via an affiliate) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Payroll and Professional Services Business of Alight, Inc. for up to $1.2 billion. The business is a global provider of technology-enabled payroll, human capital management and cloud advisory/managed services (serving ~1,500 enterprise clients with ~8,000 employees); H.I.G. plans to establish it as a standalone leader and invest to expand its capabilities and growth.

iSolved HCM Acquires Sage Payroll Solutions (U.S. payroll outsourcing business)

January 15, 2019

Staffing & HR

iSolved HCM agreed to acquire Sage Payroll Solutions, the U.S. payroll outsourcing business of The Sage Group Plc. The deal adds more than 44,000 payroll customers and expands iSolved's employer reach to roughly 145,000, accelerating iSolved's midmarket HCM growth while enabling Sage to divest a non-core unit as it focuses on its SaaS strategy.

Tenzing Private Equity Invests in activpayroll

January 29, 2020

Staffing & HR

Tenzing Private Equity has made a growth investment in activpayroll, the Aberdeen-headquartered global payroll and expatriate tax specialist founded by Alison Sellar. The investment will back product development, sales expansion and activpayroll's acquisition and international growth strategy while supporting the existing senior management team.

Deel Acquires Safeguard Global's Payroll Division

April 30, 2025

Staffing & HR

Deel has acquired Safeguard Global’s payroll division, bringing hundreds of Safeguard payroll experts and their enterprise global payroll capabilities into Deel’s platform. The deal strengthens Deel’s ability to execute large, complex global payroll projects and deepens its integrations with partners such as Workday while Safeguard will continue to be supported under an agreement for existing and future international payroll customers.