Intrepid Investment Bankers, a leading middle-market investment bank and the advisory arm of global financial group, MUFG, announced that LinkUp has officially completed its sale to GlobalData (LON: DATA), a global leader in data analytics and publishing based in the U.K. Intrepid acted as the exclusive financial advisor to LinkUp.
Founded in 2000, LinkUp is the global leader in providing accurate, real-time, and predictive job market data. The company’s proprietary technology indexes millions of job listings daily directly from over 66,000 employer websites around the world. Global asset managers, human capital management organizations, and other multi-national corporations, alike, rely on LinkUp’s data for actionable insights into the global labor market at the macroeconomic to individual company level or across themes, skills, products, and technologies.
“We could not have been more pleased with the transaction and Intrepid was instrumental in helping us achieve a fantastic outcome,” said Toby Dayton, Chief Executive Officer of LinkUp. “Jeff, Ryan, and the entire team were great to work with and added enormous value at literally every single stage of the process. From the team’s collective knowledge and experience to their professionalism and attention to detail, combined with an incredible amount of really high-quality work, they were invaluable in getting our deal done.”
“We had a terrific experience digging in deep with Toby and the LinkUp team to map out and close a successful transaction in what has been a soft overall Tech M&A market recently,” said Jeff Becker, Managing Director in the Software & Services practice at Intrepid. “We are thrilled to have found the right buyer for LinkUp’s unique data offerings and believe the company will thrive as an important part of GlobalData. This Talent Intelligence deal also continues to bolster Intrepid’s strong credentials in our Human Capital Management franchise within our Software & Services banking group.”
