Orange Business Services Consolidates Basefarm, Login Consultants and *um Under One Brand

Amazing Life Foundation Acquires Orange

January 8, 2025

Education

Amazing Life Foundation has merged with Orange, bringing the Christian curriculum provider into Amazing Life’s portfolio to strengthen technology, operational support, and resources for churches and families. Orange will continue operating from its Cumming, Georgia headquarters under the leadership of Chris Heaslip, with the combined organizations aiming to expand curriculum offerings, events, and digital capabilities.

ORANGE and MASMOVIL to combine Spanish operations in 50-50 joint venture

July 23, 2022

Telecommunications

ORANGE and MASMOVIL have signed a binding agreement to combine their Spanish businesses into a 50-50 joint venture (LORCA JVCO) based on an enterprise value of €18.6 billion (€7.8bn for ORANGE Spain and €10.9bn for MASMOVIL). The deal, backed by a €6.6bn non‑recourse debt package and expected to generate >€450m of annual synergies by year four, is subject to antitrust and regulatory approvals and is targeted to close by H2 2023, with a path to an IPO under certain conditions.

Accenture Completes Acquisition of umlaut

October 1, 2021

Engineering Services

Accenture has completed the acquisition of umlaut, an engineering consulting and services firm headquartered in Aachen, Germany. The deal (terms not disclosed) brings more than 4,200 engineers and consultants across 17 countries into Accenture's Industry X practice to expand its engineering, digital and sustainability capabilities across automotive, aerospace & defense, telecommunications and energy markets.

Univerus Inc. Acquires Blue Ocean Systems

May 12, 2021

IT Services

Univerus Inc., an integrated software solutions provider, has acquired Blue Ocean Systems, a Vancouver-based SAP Business One implementation and consulting firm. The acquisition expands Univerus' technical capabilities and enables Blue Ocean to leverage Univerus' product suite and development resources to better serve public-sector and SMB customers.

Onecom Acquires Olive Communications

February 11, 2021

Telecommunications

Onecom, backed by LDC, has acquired rival Olive Communications to create the UK's largest B2B mobile, fixed-line and cloud communications specialist. The deal consolidates market share, brings combined annual turnover of more than £140m and follows follow-on funding from LDC while growth investor BGF exits its stake in Olive.

E Source Acquires UMS Group

November 28, 2023

Energy

E Source, the Align Capital Partners-backed utility market intelligence and data-science platform, has acquired UMS Group, a utility management consulting firm. The add-on strengthens E Source’s consulting capabilities in areas such as wildfire risk reduction, asset management, renewable integration and advanced AI modeling for utilities.