Mergermarket Group Boosts Regulatory Know-How With Acquisition

Tom Burroughes

13 November 2015

, the global media firm providing data and news to investment banks, financial advisors and other professionals, has agreed to acquire C6 Intelligence, a UK-headquartered provider of risk intelligence and information at a time of rising regulatory and compliance demands.

The acquisition sits alongside Mergermarket’s risk and regulatory portfolio, such as the FCPA Report, the Hedge Fund Law Report and Wealthmonitor. (Wealthmonitor provides data on liquidity events and some of its content has been exclusively published by WealthBriefing and its sister news services.)

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

“We’ve identified the risk and compliance market as a critical strategic growth area for our business,” Hamilton Matthews, chief executive of Mergermarket Group, said.

“Through the acquisition of C6, we will bring in regulatory and compliance expertise from an accomplished and experienced management team and a risk intelligence database dating back more than 10 years. Combined with our existing portfolio, our subscribers will have access to a comprehensive suite of risk and regulatory intelligence and data,” Matthews said.