Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech
Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech Surprising … well, no one … Emerson announced today that it will acquire all outstanding shares of AspenTech for $265.00 per share in an all-cash offer. Emerson already owns roughly 57% of shares, so this will be quite a large cash...
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my!
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my! What did I see this morning? We’re not even at the end of January, and it already feels like a very long year … something like that. You too? We’ll get through it together! While the wider world...
Wishing you and yours …
… a holiday season as calm as an afternoon when all meetings are canceled. Thank you for your emails, comments, briefings, and questions. It was an honor to work with you in 2024 — let’s do it again in 2025! Above is the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges....
Q3 2024 earnings are finally done – what have we learned?
Q3 2024 earnings are finally done – what have we learned? Yay! The PLMish earnings season finally ended last week. Rather than recap each individual set of results, I thought I’d take a bigger-picture look: What have we learned over the last six weeks of...
voxeljet to be acquired by Anzu Partners – unless a better deal comes up
voxeljet to be acquired by Anzu Partners – unless a better deal comes up The additive manufacturing world continues to consolidate: voxeljet just announced that it has provisionally agreed to sell its entire business to funds affiliated with Anzu Partners via an...
Emerson offers $240/share in cash to buy up rest of AspenTech
Emerson offers $240/share in cash to buy up rest of AspenTech The PLMish news flow is just insane right now –still trying to get to a longer post about Siemens acquiring Altair– and now this: Last night, AspenTech announced what I’d call middling...
It’s official: Siemens buys Altair for $10 billion
It’s official: Siemens buys Altair for $10 billion From Siemens: Siemens strengthens leadership in industrial software and AI with acquisition of Altair Engineering … Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering Inc., a leading provider of...
Synopsys + Ansys stalls in UK and South Korea
Synopsys + Ansys stalls in UK and South Korea Yes, there’s lots of earnings news to cover, but this just came across the inbox: the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will be investigating Synopsys’ proposed acquisition of Ansys because...
