Acuris

Acuris
FormerlyMergermarket Group
Company typePrivately held company
FoundedDecember 1999; 24 years ago (1999-12) (as Mergermarket Group)
FoundersCaspar Hobbs
Charlie Welsh
Gawn Rowan Hamilton
Headquarters
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Yanita Morris (CCO)
OwnerION Group
BC Partners
Websitewww.acuris.com

Acuris is a financial news and data firm known for its products fixed income research provider Debtwire and Mergermarket, a specialist in M&A intelligence. It is owned by ION Investment Group, a financial software and data business which owns Fidessa and Dealogic. ION Group bought the company from BC Partners, a private equity group, and GIC Private Limited, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, in 2019.[1]

Formerly known as Mergermarket Group (Mergermarket Ltd.), the company has 1,300 staff, including 600 journalists and analysts, in 67 locations around the world,[2] with headquarters in London, New York, Mumbai and Hong Kong.

  1. ^ "Dealogic owner ION buys controlling stake in data firm Acuris". Reuters. 2019-05-13. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  2. ^ "The Acuris Story". Acuris. 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2017-12-06.