Cegid to Combine With Grupo Primavera in All-Share Deal

Cegid Acquires Shine to Create a Unified AI-Driven Financial Platform for SMBs and Accountants

December 1, 2025

Cloud & SaaS

Cegid has completed its acquisition of Shine, a European fintech unicorn providing electronic invoicing, accounting, business accounts, payroll, and related payment solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. The combined company will create a fully integrated, cloud-native, AI-driven financial hub for SMBs and accounting professionals across multiple European markets.

Cinven and Ontario Teachers' to acquire and combine group.ONE and dogado group

December 5, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

International private equity firm Cinven, alongside Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, has agreed to acquire and combine Sweden-headquartered group.ONE and Germany-headquartered dogado group to create a pan‑European provider of online presence solutions for SMEs. The combined business will offer domains, web and cloud hosting, business software and digital marketing services to a large, recurring customer base across the Nordic, Benelux and DACH regions; financial terms were not disclosed and the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals.

Silver Lake Acquires 100% of Grupo BC from L-GAM

October 19, 2021

IT Services

Silver Lake, together with Grupo BC’s founding shareholders and management team, will acquire 100% of mortgage management, legal, and digital services provider Grupo BC from majority holder L-GAM. The investment is intended to accelerate product development and expand Grupo BC’s software and data analytics capabilities across Iberia and Latin America, with the transaction anticipated to close in November 2021.

Oakley Capital Acquires PRIMAVERA and Creates Grupo Primavera with Ekon

June 22, 2021

Software

Oakley Capital Private Equity III has agreed to acquire PRIMAVERA Business Software Solutions, the Portuguese leader in ERP and business management software, from founders José Dionísio and Jorge Batista. The business will be combined with Oakley’s existing portfolio company Ekon and recent bolt-ons to form Grupo Primavera, a leading independent Iberian SME software platform focused on accelerating SaaS adoption.

Cinven, KKR and Providence Complete Acquisition of MASMOVIL

November 17, 2020

Telecommunications

A consortium led by funds managed or advised by Cinven, KKR and Providence Equity (through Lorca Telecom Bidco SAU) has completed the acquisition of MASMOVIL IBERCOM, S.A., acquiring approximately 99.3% of the group's outstanding shares at a valuation of about €5.3 billion. The consortium said the deal will enable MASMOVIL to accelerate its investment strategy and pursue growth and projects to strengthen its position in the Spanish telecommunications market.

Cinven to acquire Viridium and combine it with Generali Lebensversicherung AG

July 13, 2018

Financial Services

Cinven's Sixth Fund has agreed to acquire the Viridium Group and provide equity for Viridium to acquire Generali Lebensversicherung AG, creating a leading consolidator in the German life insurance market. The combination will bring together roughly 5 million policies and around €55–60 billion of assets under management, with Generali Deutschland retaining a 10.1% stake and Hannover Re reinvesting in the combined entity.