Buyer for risk management software company in Europe

• Revenue: 3-30M EUR
• Employees: not decisive
• Location of the target: Europe
• Reason for acquisition: The company is active in risk management and compliance. It has a strategy for growing its operations in Europe via acquisitions, therefore the management is open to speaking to interested sellers
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The buyer is part of a large group that is active in the fields of risk management, governance and compliance. It has built a platform that contains multiple solutions applicable to the needs of all types of enterprise market sectors. The group records more than 250M Euro a year and has very successful businesses. Its strategy of growth implies doing profitable acquisitions, it has a long history of operations in the M&A area and has a stable budget allocated for further acquisitions. In the present, the management decided to look for another company for sale located in either Europe, USA, Australia or Middle East. This is part of an expansion strategy that will help the group to reach new markets and clients. The target company has to be specialized in providing software solutions for risk management. The buyer is looking for companies that are small to medium size (3-30M Euro revenue) and that have the ambition to grow with the support of a strong partner. The buyer is open to talk with companies that have as specific activities development of software for risk management, compliance, governance, health & safety, cyber GRC.

The company has a long presence on the market being active in areas related to risk management, audit, compliance, policy management and incident management. The team created a package of complementary products that are available either in-cloud or as standalone on-premises installation. Mobile-enabled, the world-class solutions are developed based on the latest technologies and are designed to support better business decisions by allowing the business managers to have a single view over the possible risks of an enterprise. The developing team has industry-specific experience, knowledge and uses the best practices to create risk management solutions tailored to the needs of every industry. The company’s customers come from industries such as financial services, government, infrastructure, aerospace & defence, energy and more.

The risk management solution is a web based software that enables operational managers to control the risk challenges of the entire organization. The solution allows to identify, analyse, control, monitor, mitigate and report toward risk of an enterprise and also helps in managing a project and do strategic business planning. Though it is robust and has a unique integrated approach, the platform is also designed to be flexible and configurable so that can be applicable to the specific needs of a business regardless the risk management standards defined by each organization. For companies for which data control, security and integration is an important factor, the risk management product can be available in-house; for other organizations can be deployed as a hosted SaaS based solution. The web services-based API allows integration with various systems such as ERP (Oracle, SAP), Project Management, Document Management and other popular management systems.

The buyer is looking to acquire a software company that is active in the field of risk & compliance management.

The target team should be able to deliver services such as:

• Project Planning
• Solution Installation
• Integration
• User Engagement
• Product Optimization

• The buyer is a company active in the field of GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance) management
• The buyer is part of a large group with global operations
• The group is very acquisitive and is looking to expend its European operations
• Target companies should be software enterprises active in areas such as risk management, compliance, governance, health & safety, cyber GRC.