Formerly | Mergermarket Group |
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Company type | Privately held company |
Founded | December 1999 | (as Mergermarket Group)
Founders | Caspar Hobbs Charlie Welsh Gawn Rowan Hamilton |
Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Yanita Morris (CCO) |
Owner | ION Group BC Partners |
Website | www.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.