In February, Telus acquired outsourced employee benefits plan consulting company Lifeworks for $1.7B. Telus will combine LifeWorks with its Telus Health unit that connects patients with physicians virtually through its mobile apps such as Akira and Babylon.
Signify Health, a value-based care platform, has acquired accountable care organization builder Caravan Health for $250 million. This combination creates a large national network of providers engaged in value-based payment models.
Symetri expands into US market with acquisition of Microdesk for $26M. Together, Symetri and Microdesk will have an increased Service and R&D capacity enable more people to work smarter and more sustainably.
FlexIT acquired the healthcare division of Genesis Integration, a Canadian provider of nursecall systems, based in Edmonton, Alberta. It is one in a series of acquisitions aligned with FlexITy's growth strategy to acquire communications and information technology integration businesses across Canada.
South Africa-based Teraco Data, a provider of vendor neutral, carrier neutral and wireless colocation services, was bought for $1.7B by Digital Realty.
In March, electronic payment processing company MoneyGram was acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners for $998M at 1.4x revenue.
South Africa-based Net 1 UEPS Technologies bought Connect Group for $242M, transforming its merchant offering, MSME footprint and growth trajectory.
In Italy, the utility company Enel has agreed to buy 50% of Mooney to manage the payment firm, jointly negotiating with Intesa Sanpaolo creating a new entrant to the European fintech market.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation acquired digital forensics and incident response, remediation, recovery, ransomware settlement company Tracepoint to create a scaled business in three key areas: incident response, enterprise consulting and managed services.
In September, Swiss firm SoftwareONE acquired UK-based AWS-focused consulting, engineering, systems integration, and managed services company HeleCloud.
