The best deal is not the one with the highest multiple
A room with more than 40 CFOs and CEOs of family businesses. A full day at Católica-Lisbon discussing what no one usually says out loud: how much is a family business actually worth?

Latest news and stories about mergers acquisitions in Portugal for expats and residents.
A room with more than 40 CFOs and CEOs of family businesses. A full day at Católica-Lisbon discussing what no one usually says out loud: how much is a family business actually worth?

Deloitte Legal TELLES advised the shareholders of Seguramos on the sale of 45% of its share capital to MDS. With the completion of this deal, MDS becomes the majority shareholder of the company, in what is the largest Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) operation ever carried out by a broker based in Portugal. This strategic deal dictates a...

Euromex provides services to public entities and healthcare units, including some of the country’s main hospitals, employing around 3,000 people. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

Eversheds Sutherland announces the appointment of six new equity partners, a promotion to of-counsel and an external hire to the partner ranks. Thus, Eversheds Sutherland promoted to equity partners the lawyers João Osório de Castro, Gonçalo Mexia and António Cid (Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions), Bruno Arez Martins (Tax), ...

Toscafund, the largest shareholder of insurer Caravela, has put its holding in the insurer up for sale and appointed Mediobanca as adviser on the transaction, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing people close to the potential deal. The fund took a stake in what is the seventh-largest non-life insurer in Portugal in 2019, through ...

Quadrante closed earlier this month the acquisition of Right Analytics, a consultancy specialising in electrical transmission systems based in Los Angeles that counts Google and data-centre companies among its clients. It is the first of several purchases planned this year for the United States market, the CEO tells ECO...


Portuguese technology consultancy Arquiconsult has acquired a majority stake in Fênix, the local partner with which it says it has maintained a relationship for more than 15 years. The Brazilian company has operations in the United States through a company in Miami, which will also help open doors to that market. The consultancy, specialised in systems of ...

Although Portugal and Europe are about to end a peculiar year for mergers and acquisitions — with the number of deals falling while their value rises — the rest of the world is set to close 2025 with record figures. Globally, this will be the second-best year ever in terms of capital deployed...
