2015 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Aspect Acquires Near Real-Time Translation Assets from Linguasys - 14 Aug 2015
- Keyword Studios Buys Liquid Development for 9M EUR - 25 Aug 2015
- New Zealand’s Straker Translations Bags USD3.8M in Funding - 1 Sep 2015
- Funding Wave in Language Industry Reaches India: Reverie Raises $4M Series A - 1 Sep 2015
- Alibaba Speeds Up Cross-Border Ecommerce Development with LSP Acquisition - 2 Sep 2015
- Japanese Web Localizer WOVN.io Secures $1.1 Million Seed Funding - 3 Sep 2015
- Translation Startup Fluently.io Gets Early Stage Support - 16 Sep 2015
- Amazon Acquires MT Vendor Safaba, Creates Machine Translation R&D Group - 28 Sep 2015
- Game Targets $250K in 39 Days for Localization on Kickstarter, Gets $465K in 4 Days - 29 Sep 2015
- Translation Startup Funding Disclosed on Crunchbase over the Last Ten Years: $231M - 12 Oct 2015
- ADAPT Localization Takes over Transline Group’s Spanish Subsidiary - 21 Oct 2015
- Billionaire Leon Cooperman Increases Stake in “Undervalued” Lionbridge - 29 Oct 2015
- The VCs Keep Giving: San Francisco-based Localize Raises $1.1M - 30 Oct 2015
- Speech Disability Translation App Wins $500K Funding in New York Startup Competition - 2 Nov 2015
- Another Crowdsourcing Platform Scores Funding: $3.3 Million - 3 Nov 2015
- RWS Doubles Down on Life Sciences and Acquires CTi for $70M - 4 Nov 2015
- Targeting The Suits: Lionbridge Acquires Geotext Translations - 10 Nov 2015
- Game Localizer Keywords Studios Raises $15.7M, Targets Acquisitions - 26 Nov 2015
- Morningside Is Buying Technical Translation LSP Advanced Language Translation - 2 Dec 2015
- Spain’s MondragonLingua Acquires New Jersey Agency Global Word Inc. - 15 Dec 2015
- Exclusive: MondragonLingua CEO Reveals Details of Global Word Acquisition - 16 Dec 2015
- Straker Translations Picks Up Another NZD 1M Because It Can - 17 Dec 2015
- Waygo Secures $750K Seed Round From Four Venture Capital Firms - 18 Dec 2015
2016 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Stratus Video Interpreting Acquires Optimal Phone Interpreters - 26 Jan 2016
- Swiss Startup Interprefy Raises CHF 400,000 - 29 Jan 2016
- Korona Invest Acquires AAC Global - 29 Jan 2016
- Blackstone Hires Morgan Stanley to Sell Pactera, Seeks Up to USD 1bn - 2 Feb 2016
- Money Flows Into Text Analytics: What Companies Got Funded in 2015 - 5 Feb 2016
- Capita TI Acquires London-based Rival ITR - 15 Feb 2016
- UK’s Cintra Buys Fellow Cambridge Agency First Edition - 16 Feb 2016
- Capita TI Managing Director Kevin Gordon Comments on ITR Acquisition - 17 Feb 2016
- Welocalize Buys London-based Digital Marketing Agency - 1 Mar 2016
- Private Equity Owner Puts LanguageLine Up For Sale - 23 Mar 2016
- Keywords Pushes Into Asia; Buys Companies in Beijing and Manila - 1 Apr 2016
- Over the Air: Smartling Acquires App Localizer Jargon - 6 Apr 2016
- Another Italian Job: Keywords Pays EUR 18m to Acquire Rival Synthesis - 13 Apr 2016
- Merrill Corp. Plans to Sell Merrill Translation Services - 14 Apr 2016
- M&A Wave Reaches Platforms as ProZ.com Buys TM-Town - 15 Apr 2016
- Who’s Behind the Merrill Translations Buyout? - 21 Apr 2016
- Bottom-up Consolidation: TTC wetranslate Buys Bedford Translations - 22 Apr 2016
- Taiwanese Newspaper Takes 15% Stake in Translation Startup WritePath - 2 May 2016
- Welocalize Expands Into Life Sciences, Buys Spain’s Nova - 12 May 2016
- VirtualWorks Pays USD 6m to Buy German NLP Firm Language Tools - 13 May 2016
- VerbalizeIt Pivots Into Smartling’s Arms - 19 May 2016
- Concorde Buys Itself a Translation Platform - 23 May 2016
- Market Interest in TransPerfect Is Growing as Auction Deadline Approaches - 27 May 2016
- Merrill Spinoff ULG Discloses Added Private-Equity Backing, Acquires KJI - 10 Jun 2016
- Rolling It Up: Jeff Brink on Creating United Language Group - 15 Jun 2016
- Morningside in Third Deal in 18 Months; Acquires TranZlations - 20 Jun 2016
- SeproTec Acquires Poland’s Lidolang, Builds Out Production Capacity - 22 Jun 2016
- PE Firm ECM Buys Wieners+Wieners, Eyes Buy-Build in DACH Region - 29 Jun 2016
- Morningside Owner Josh Eisen Discusses TransPerfect Bid - 1 Jul 2016
- Lingua Custodia Raises EUR 0.6m to Drive Machine Translation in Finance Sector - 1 Jul 2016
- Technicis’ First Acquisition Since PE Deal, Buys Switzerland’s Translation-Probst - 5 Jul 2016
- Keywords Pays USD 4m for Volta as Stock Trades at All-time High - 3 Aug 2016
- SmartCAT Raises USD 2.8m Seed Round From Russian VC - 9 Aug 2016
- Rozetta Pays USD 14m for Tokyo Translation Crowdsourcer Conyac - 10 Aug 2016
- GLS Founders Cash Out, Sell to Welocalize - 15 Aug 2016
- AAC Global in First Deal Since PE Investment, Buys Local Competitor TekMil - 16 Aug 2016
- Norway’s Hero Tolk Sets Sail for Finland, Acquires Helsingin Tulkkipalvelut - 17 Aug 2016
- LanguageLine Sold for USD 1.5bn to Call Center Giant Teleperformance - 22 Aug 2016
- LanguageLine’s New Owner Says Tech Will Not Replace Interpreters - 25 Aug 2016
- Transline in Buyout of KE-Communication’s Translation Unit - 29 Aug 2016
- Capita TI Targets Lawyers and Bankers With Acquisition of Amity Communications - 7 Sep 2016
- LinguaLinx Acquires Language Translation Inc’s Client Portfolio - 26 Sep 2016
- Blackstone Sells Pactera to Giant Chinese Conglomerate - 10 Oct 2016
- Donnelley Financial Solutions Completes Spin-off - 10 Oct 2016
- Straker Translations Acquires Eurotext, Replaces Plunet - 14 Oct 2016
- How Appen Struck Gold in Language Services - 20 Oct 2016
- Keywords Studios Acquires Player Research - 26 Oct 2016
- SDL Sells Campaigns, Two More to Go - 3 Nov 2016
- Movie Localizer Deluxe Buys Sfera, Hires Google’s ex-Language Services Head - 8 Nov 2016
- Japan’s Fidel Acquires Indian Localization Platform LinguaSol - 8 Dec 2016
- Lionbridge Sold to Private Equity Group for USD 360m - 12 Dec 2016
- Xplanation Acquires Germany’s Matrix Communications - 13 Dec 2016
- LIOX No More: Rory Cowan on Taking Lionbridge Private - 16 Dec 2016
2017 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Inside the Process That Saw Lionbridge Sold to Private Equity - 13 Jan 2017
- Denmark’s TextMinded Buys Interpen Translation - 18 Jan 2017
- SDL Sells Fredhopper for GBP 25m - 30 Jan 2017
- Straker Translations Snaps Up Elanex - 9 Feb 2017
- RWS Spends Big on 82.5m Acquisition of LUZ - 14 Feb 2017
- Conference Rental Buys Challenge Partners, Enters Europe - 1 Mar 2017
- Lionbridge Challenges Keywords Studios With Exequo Deal - 9 Mar 2017
- ULG Buys German Machine Translation Developer Lucy - 15 Mar 2017
- GLOBO Expands Into Texas and Mexico by Acquiring CTI - 27 Mar 2017
- Wieners+Wieners Buys Apostroph as the Great Swiss Sale Continues - 11 Apr 2017
- Arancho Doc Goes Shopping in Milan, Acquires Soget - 13 Apr 2017
- Amplexor Acquires Sajan for USD 28.5m - 26 Apr 2017
- Semantix Snaps Up TextMinded, Accelerates Consolidation in the Nordics - 3 May 2017
- PE Fund Buys LanguageWire as Deal Fever Grips Denmark - 5 May 2017
- Concorde Tucks In Financial Translation Specialist BB&TW - 8 May 2017
- Keywords Studios Bolts On Gaming CMS for Under a Million - 12 May 2017
- Inside Amplexor’s Two-Year Pursuit of Sajan and What CEO Evenepoel Plans Next - 17 May 2017
- ABM Sells US Government Services Unit, Incl. Language Business, for USD 35.5m - 9 Jun 2017
- ABBYY LS and Traktat End Russia’s M&A Freeze to Form Country’s Largest LSP - 19 Jun 2017
- Ubiqus in Spanish One-Two Punch, Buys Celer and Remaining 60% of Poliglota - 14 Jul 2017
- As Industry Booms, Media Content Localizer BTI Studios Changes Private Equity Owner - 24 Jul 2017
- London LSP translate plus Acquired by World’s Third Largest Ad Agency Publicis - 28 Jul 2017
- ICON Buys Mapi, Targets “Growing” Language Services Market - 3 Aug 2017
- Keywords Studios Goes Shopping in France - 4 Aug 2017
- Williams Lea Tag Says Good-Bye DHL in Private Equity Carve-Out - 28 Aug 2017
- Technicis Buys Arancho Doc As Consolidation in Europe Continues - 13 Sep 2017
- Poland’s Summa Linguae Completes Merger with India’s Mayflower - 2 Oct 2017
- After Buying CPW Group, France’s HL Trad Eyes More Acquisitions - 11 Oct 2017
- Enter the Operators: Morningside’s New Owners Bet Big On Language Services - 11 Oct 2017
- RWS to Buy Moravia for USD 320 Million - 18 Oct 2017
- Valued at Over USD 1 Billion, Keywords Keeps Buying - 23 Oct 2017
- Keywords Shares Jump on VMC Deal, Its Largest Acquisition To Date - 25 Oct 2017
- Honyaku Pays USD 4.8m for Tokyo Rival and Buys Stake in MT Vendor - 31 Oct 2017
- SDI Media Buys Film Marketing Agency PPC - 7 Nov 2017
- Phil Shawe Gets Nod to Buy the Whole of TransPerfect - 20 Nov 2017
- Why the CEO of Argos Multilingual Dreams of a Merger - 27 Nov 2017
- Don’t Quibble, M&A is About Establishing Trust - 14 Dec 2017
- Keywords Acquires US Game Developer and Mexico-based Dubbing Provider - 15 Dec 2017
2018 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Lylo Media Group Acquires Media Localizer Captiz - 8 Jan 2018
- Lionbridge Will Be a ‘Very Different Company’, Says CEO John Fennelly - 23 Jan 2018
- The Five Factors Why Phil Shawe (and not H.I.G.) Got TransPerfect - 26 Jan 2018
- Transline Buys Wordflow and Other Assorted European Language Industry M&A - 9 Feb 2018
- Court Accepts TransPerfect Sale to Phil Shawe, Hopes All ‘Can Move on with Their Lives’ - 16 Feb 2018
- Livewords Acquires Engels & Partners as It Continues Buy and Build Strategy - 20 Feb 2018
- Global Marketer Datawords Acquires Vanksen - 2 Mar 2018
- Semantix Rolls Up the Nordics, Buys Amesto Translations - 7 Mar 2018
- ULG Acquires VIA, Pushes Annual Revenue Past USD 100m - 12 Mar 2018
- LanguageWire Buys Frontlab in Tuck-in Tech Acquisition - 20 Mar 2018
- Technicis Acquires TextMaster, Accelerates Deal-Making - 4 Apr 2018
- TransPerfect Sale Clears Final Hurdle - 4 May 2018
- Livewords Buys Balance Translation in Yet Another Tuck-in Acquisition - 18 May 2018
- The Translation People Acquires Cicero in UK Acquisition - 21 May 2018
- TransPerfect Buys TranslateNow as Sales Surge 21% in First 5 Months - 19 Jun 2018
- HL Trad Is Next in Technicis’ Buy-and-Build Strategy - 10 Jul 2018
- Datawords In Bolt-on Acquisition of Video Content Agency 87seconds - 13 Jul 2018
- SDL Buys Donnelley Language Solutions for USD 77.5m - 16 Jul 2018
- Language Connect Sold to UK eCommerce Company The Hut Group - 19 Jul 2018
- Technicis Buys Telelingua in Second Acquisition this Month - 20 Jul 2018
- Why SDL Acquired Donnelley Language Solutions - 23 Jul 2018
- Walmart-backed Flipkart Buys Indian Voice and Language Tech Startup Liv.ai - 22 Aug 2018
- Toppan to Combine Translation Units After Buying Merrill’s Capital Markets Business - 13 Sep 2018
- Wieners+Wieners/Apostroph Group Acquires German Rival LÓPEZ-EBRI - 25 Sep 2018
- Venga Global Acquires Dutch Boutique LSP Translators International - 25 Sep 2018
- Ubiqus Buys Textualis to Grow Private Sector Business in Canada - 26 Sep 2018
- IP Service Provider Questel Acquires MultiLing in ‘Highly Competitive’ Process - 3 Oct 2018
- Straker Translations Bought Eule and MSS This Summer Ahead of Upcoming Australia IPO - 5 Oct 2018
- Livewords Acquires Rival Dutch Language Service Provider Metamorfose - 22 Oct 2018
- UK LSP Intonation Brexit-Proofs Its Business with Poland Acquisition - 23 Oct 2018
- Technicis Continues Shopping Spree With AAC Global Acquisition - 24 Oct 2018
- BTI Studios Acquires Netherlands Dubbing Studios as Dutch Dubbing On the Rise - 25 Oct 2018
- Interpreters Unlimited Acquires US Rival GlobeLink - 26 Oct 2018
- MediaLocate Acquires JLS Language to Expand in Silicon Valley - 30 Oct 2018
- LanguageWire Acquires Xplanation As Consolidation in Europe Accelerates Rapidly - 31 Oct 2018
- Canada’s OXO Translations Expands Into Latin America With Ccaps Acquisition - 9 Nov 2018
- BTI Studios Expands into Germany with Second Dubbing Studio Deal in Weeks - 15 Nov 2018
- Poland’s Summa Linguae Buys Swedish LSP Kommunicera - 20 Nov 2018
- Déesse Buys Boutique Language Service Provider Birotech from Retiring Owners - 23 Nov 2018
- Backed by Private Equity, Three German Language Service Providers Form T-Works - 23 Nov 2018
- BTI Studios Scoops up Two Dubbing Studios in Rome to Expand into Italy - 12 Dec 2018
- Ubiqus Tucks in Gedev to Expand in Aerospace and Defense - 17 Dec 2018
- TransPerfect Bolts on Mobile App and Gaming Localizer Applanga - 19 Dec 2018
2019 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Lionbridge Acquires Gengo to Bolster AI Business - 16 Jan 2019
- RWS Restarts M&A With USD 6m Acquisition of Alpha Translations Canada - 17 Jan 2019
- Semantix Snaps Up Remote Interpreting Startup Tolkvox - 5 Feb 2019
- TransPerfect Buys Explainer Video Startup Propulse Video - 8 Feb 2019
- Meet the New Owner of Translate.com - 13 Feb 2019
- Straker Acquires Madrid-based COM Translations - 26 Feb 2019
- Financial Printer Takara Buys TOIN, One of Japan’s Oldest LSPs - 27 Feb 2019
- India’s Top Exporter Reliance Industries Buys Reverie Language Technologies - 1 Mar 2019
- Appen Spends Big on Data Annotation Platform Figure Eight in Preemptive Move - 13 Mar 2019
- Sweden’s Semantix Acquires Boutique Local Rival Teknotrans - 22 Mar 2019
- Transline’s DACH Expansion Continues in Two New Boutique Acquisitions - 8 Apr 2019
- Spain’s AT Language Solutions Buys Domestic Rival AABAM - 11 Apr 2019
- Media Localizer Lylo Acquires Italian Dubbing Studio - 15 Apr 2019
- Morningside Translations Buys Net-Translators, Expands Israel Presence - 7 May 2019
- Newly-Formed German LSP t’works Acquires Local Rival text&form - 10 May 2019
- Ubiqus Diversifies Client Mix with InPuzzle and Dhaxley Acquisitions - 15 May 2019
- Stratus Video and InDemand Merge in Bid to Consolidate US Video Interpreting Market - 22 May 2019
- Welocalize Diversifies Further Into Digital Marketing, Buys UK’s Search Star - 11 Jun 2019
- Straker Tucks in Spain’s On Global as It Continues to Buy Boutique LSPs - 17 Jun 2019
- TransPerfect Refinances USD 445m Loan Used in 2017 Buyout, Gears Up for M&A - 20 Jun 2019
- Brink Is Back With Big Language Solutions, Buys Protranslating - 26 Jun 2019
- Acolad Buys Livewords as It Accelerates Up the Language Industry Food Chain - 4 Jul 2019
- Wieners + Wieners Acquires Boutique Rival LSP in Southern Germany - 29 Jul 2019
- Estonia’s Interlex Takes Majority Stake in Local Rival - 2 Aug 2019
- Acolad Swaps Private Equity Backers as CEO and Family Take Back Control - 2 Sep 2019
- TransPerfect Acquires Game Localization Specialist MoGi Group - 6 Sep 2019
- IYUNO Media Group and BTI Studios Merge in Deal That Will Reshape Media Localization - 12 Sep 2019
- TransPerfect Buys Lylo, Lassostudios, Sublime, and AGM in Media Loc Acquisition Spree - 7 Oct 2019
- As CEO Retires, Paras and Associates Adopts Employee Ownership Trust Model - 11 Oct 2019
- Private Equity Fund Set to Take Majority in Summa Linguae, Finance Two Acquisitions - 29 Oct 2019
- TransPerfect Buys Two More Media Localization and Postproduction Companies - 15 Nov 2019
- Summa Linguae to Acquire Canada-Based Localizer and Data-Annotator Globalme - 20 Nov 2019
- Machine Translation and ASR Provider AppTek Buys Speech Tech Firm Ignite-Tek - 26 Nov 2019
- Tarjama.com Acquires Audio-Visual Translation and Subtitling Agency “Captivate Arabia” - 9 Dec 2019
- Summa Linguae Closes Two Deals and Completes Majority Sale to Private Equity - 11 Dec 2019
- Keywords Studios Buys Machine Translation Provider KantanMT for Up to EUR 7 Million - 17 Dec 2019
- Finnish Language Service Provider Transfluent Acquires Two Local Boutique LSPs - 17 Dec 2019
2020 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Russian LSP AWATERA Bolts on Remote Simultaneous Interpreting Platform SPEAKUS - 16 Jan 2020
- AMN Healthcare to Buy Interpreting Provider Stratus Video for USD 475 Million - 30 Jan 2020
- AMN Healthcare CEO Explains Why They Bought Stratus Video for USD 475 Million - 5 Feb 2020
- Apostroph Group Tucks in Boutique Language Service Provider USG in Switzerland - 6 Feb 2020
- Straker Translations Pays USD 1.1 Million for New Zealand Rival NZTC - 12 Feb 2020
- Capita Plans to Sell Translation and Interpreting Business, UK Media Reports - 20 Feb 2020
- Canada’s OXO Innovation Buys Local Rival Communications Transcript - 11 Mar 2020
- Australia’s Ai-Media Buys US-based ASL Interpreting Provider ACS - 12 May 2020
- RWS Acquires MT Provider Iconic and Indian LSP Webdunia - 9 Jun 2020
- IYUNO Acquires German Dubbing Studio Scalamedia - 19 Jun 2020
- Takara Pays Berlitz Owner USD 46m for Japanese LSP Simul - 26 Jun 2020
- Canadian LSP Scriptis Buys Boutique US Rival MTM - 29 Jun 2020
- Interpreting Provider TVcN Rebrands to Global Talk after Sweden Acquisition - 6 Jul 2020
- Deluxe Sells Its Media Localization Arm to PE in Carve-Up - 6 Jul 2020
- Memsource Sells to Carlyle: The Inside Story - 14 Jul 2020
- Translator Marketplace Ureed Raises Seed Round, Buys Rival Nabbesh - 17 Jul 2020
- SwissGlobal Buys Rival (and Neighbor) Semiotic Transfer - 22 Jul 2020
- Meet the New Owners of MT Provider SYSTRAN - 11 Aug 2020
- RWS to Buy SDL in Transformative Deal for the Language Industry - 27 Aug 2020
- Google Injects USD 100 Million and Automated Translation Into Telehealth - 7 Sep 2020
- BIG Gets Bigger, Acquires US Healthcare Specialist ISI - 14 Sep 2020
- Belgian LSPs ElaN Languages and OneLiner Merge - 16 Sep 2020
- Acolad Buys AMPLEXOR, Becomes Continental Europe’s Largest LSP - 21 Sep 2020
- Apostroph Group Buys Swiss Rival GLOBAL TRANSLATIONS - 29 Sep 2020
- RWS Inches Closer to Completing SDL Acquisition - 13 Oct 2020
- RWS Completes Acquisition of SDL - 6 Nov 2020
- Lionbridge Sells AI Division to TELUS for USD 935 Million - 6 Nov 2020
- Australia’s Ai-Media Acquires Two US-based Captioning and Access Providers - 15 Dec 2020
2021 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Media Localizer Deluxe Buys Cloud-based Mastering, Versioning Platform Sundog - 12 Jan 2021
- Capita Pauses Sale of Translation and Interpreting Unit During Pandemic - 13 Jan 2021
- Straker Acquires Lingotek for Up to USD 9.6m - 21 Jan 2021
- Iyuno to Acquire Rival SDI in Major Consolidation of Media Localization - 22 Jan 2021
- Across Systems’ Gerd Janiszewski on Selling the TMS Provider to Volaris Group - 29 Jan 2021
- Ad Astra Acquires Boutique Canadian Translation Agency MontLingo - 2 Feb 2021
- Match.com Pays a Cool USD 1.7 Billion for Startup Built on Google Translation API - 24 Feb 2021
- Multilingual Content Provider Quill Folded into Marketing Agency Jellyfish - 26 Feb 2021
- Media Localizer VSI Acquires Vox Mundi - 5 Mar 2021
- German LSP t’works Buys France’s Lexcelera - 9 Mar 2021
- Questel Buys Morningside to Become Key Player in IP & Patent Translation - 26 Mar 2021
- David Lee Steps Into CEO Role as Iyuno Completes SDI Acquisition - 26 Mar 2021
- Sony Sells Business Unit to Media Localizer Deluxe - 9 Apr 2021
- Ai-Media to Raise Capital, Buy Captioning & Subtitle Tech Firm EEG for USD 34m - 28 Apr 2021
- Canadian Translation Agency TRSB Acquires Local Rival Anglocom - 6 May 2021
- Propio Language Services Acquires Translation and Interpreting Provider Vocalink - 10 May 2021
- AI Transcription Agency Verbit Buys Captioning Provider Vitac to Enter Media Sector - 11 May 2021
- Big Language Solutions Acquires USD 27.5m OPI Provider, Language Link - 11 May 2021
- German Translation Network Buys Lingua-World, Enters Build Phase - 12 May 2021
- BLEND Acquires Company That Recorded Siri, GM Voices - 15 Jun 2021
- Zoom Bolts on Speech Translation in What Is Only Its Second-Ever Acquisition - 30 Jun 2021
- Bankers Bullish as RWS Tucks in Japanese Patent Translation Agency for USD 3m - 8 Jul 2021
- Lionbridge Acquires Game Localization Studio Rocket Sound - 9 Jul 2021
- Big Language Solutions Buys Life Sciences Specialist Dora Wirth Languages - 12 Jul 2021
- Argos Multilingual Buys Linguistic Quality Assurance Provider Chillistore - 13 Jul 2021
- Welocalize Buys Germany’s NLG, Doubles Life Sciences Business - 22 Jul 2021
- TransPerfect Buys Semantix in Largest Acquisition Yet - 30 Jul 2021
- After 40 Years, thebigword’s Larry Gould Cashes Out, Sells to Private Equity - 5 Aug 2021
- WCG Buys E-clinical Software and Translation Provider VeraSci - 10 Aug 2021
- Toppan Digital Language Makes First Move, Acquires GlobaLexicon - 16 Aug 2021
- TransPerfect Snaps Up Digital Marketing Agency Webcertain - 24 Aug 2021
- SeproTec Reportedly Valued at EUR 75m in Nazca Capital Buy-Out - 17 Sep 2021
- Investment Firm K1 Buys Poland’s XTRF in Second TMS Acquisition - 22 Sep 2021
- Life Sciences Translation Provider Conversis Buys Niche Specialist Zebra - 5 Oct 2021
- Argos Multilingual Enters World’s Top 25 LSPs as It Buys Venga Global - 21 Oct 2021
- ZOO Digital Invests in Turkish Media Localization Provider ARES - 8 Nov 2021
- STAR7 Acquires Ireland-Based LocalEyes, Localization Provider to Apple - 24 Nov 2021
- IK Partners Takes Majority Stake in UK-Based DA Languages - 10 Dec 2021
- Media Localizer Take 1 to Acquire Transcription Provider Verb8tm - 13 Dec 2021
- Summa Linguae Acquires Language Data Provider Datamundi - 15 Dec 2021
- Unbabel Buys Lingo24, Adds Key Enterprise Accounts - 20 Dec 2021
- Automatic Sync Technologies Next in Verbit’s Acquisition Spree - 28 Dec 2021
2022 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Straker Translations Expands in Europe With Idest Acquisition - 4 Jan 2022
- Propio Buys Interpreting Service Providers Arch and Intelligere - 12 Jan 2022
- German LSP t’works Acquires Portugal’s Traductanet - 14 Jan 2022
- Apostroph Group Tucks in Boutique Language Service Provider in Switzerland - 20 Jan 2022
- DEMAN Übersetzungen Buys Boutique LSPs, Aims to Double Revenues in 2022 - 31 Jan 2022
- difuze Acquires Audio Description Specialist SpeakEasyDV - 17 Feb 2022
- 3Play Media Acquires Localization and Accessibility Provider Captionmax - 22 Feb 2022
- Transcription Unicorn Verbit Buys UK Market Research Specialist Take Note - 4 Mar 2022
- Transline, One of Germany’s Largest LSPs, Sold to Investment Firm Blue Cap - 8 Mar 2022
- LanguageWire Acquires French LSP Agency Walker Services (AWS) - 10 Mar 2022
- Lionbridge Buys Berlin Game Localizer, Expands Further in Europe’s Leading Market - 15 Mar 2022
- Boostlingo Buys VoiceBoxer and Interpreter Intelligence, Adds RSI, Scheduling Tech - 23 Mar 2022
- Acolad Buys Rival Ubiqus, Further Consolidating French Translation Market - 25 Mar 2022
- Big Language Solutions Buys Lawlinguists, Plans Master Brand - 12 Apr 2022
- SeproTec Buys tsd in First Acquisition After Majority Sale to Private Equity - 20 Apr 2022
- Software Localization Platform Transifex Sold to PARC Partners - 21 Apr 2022
- RWS Shares Jump on Takeover Talk - 21 Apr 2022
- Toppan Digital Language Buys Translate Media Adding to London Presence - 3 May 2022
- Baring Will Not Proceed With RWS Takeover Bid - 16 May 2022
- Lionbridge AI Buyer, Telus, Abruptly Abandons USD 700m Appen Bid - 26 May 2022
- Pixelogic Acquires Juice Media, Increases Korean Dubbing Capacity - 27 May 2022
- Argo Translation Acquires E-learning Specialist ICDTranslation - 1 Jun 2022
- Transline Acquires Fellow German LSP Micado Innovation - 24 Jun 2022
- White Knight Capital Management Buys Argentina-Based Stillman Translations - 18 Jul 2022
- Word Class Acquires Fellow French Financial LSP Fastnet Translation - 29 Jul 2022
- Deluxe Media Tucks In German Dubbing Studio CSC - 3 Aug 2022
- Verbit Acquires UK Transcription and Localization Services Company Take 1 - 4 Aug 2022
- Automation Leader UiPath Bolts On Text Mining Startup Re:infer - 11 Aug 2022
- Propio Acquires Telelanguage as CEO Sees Remote Interpreting at ‘All-Time High’ - 15 Aug 2022
- TransPerfect Acquires Virtual Data Room Company Sterling Technology - 30 Aug 2022
- Lionbridge Inks Deal With Game Testing Company - 15 Sep 2022
- TransPerfect Acquires Hiventy, Accelerating Expansion in Media Localization - 17 Oct 2022
- Summa Linguae Buys Poland-Based Life Sciences LSP Get It - 18 Oct 2022
- LanguageLine Buys Capita Translation and Interpreting - 11 Nov 2022
- Nations Translation Group Buys Language Marketplace as Canadian Market Consolidates - 24 Nov 2022
- Blu Digital Group Acquires Haymillian; Moves Deeper Into Media Localization - 28 Nov 2022
- Academic LSP Enago Acquires Charlesworth Group - 6 Dec 2022
- Deluxe Media Tucks in English Dubbing Specialist Post Haste Digital - 13 Dec 2022
2023 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Belgian Language Service Provider Stoquart Buys France-Based Rival - 17 Jan 2023
- AI Agency Unbabel Buys Germany’s EVS Translations - 17 Jan 2023
- Korean-Owned Piccoma Buys 70% Stake in Language Service Provider Voithru - 25 Jan 2023
- LanguageWire Buys French Translation Agency, A.D.T. International - 3 Mar 2023
- inWhatLanguage Acquired by Translation and Legal Solutions Provider Trustpoint.One - 10 Mar 2023
- The Translation People Acquires Scotland’s Sure Languages - 27 Mar 2023
- Germany’s Flexword to Acquire Local Boutique Translation Agency - 21 Apr 2023
- Hong Kong’s HeterMedia Acquires Majority of Boutique LSP Into23 - 26 Apr 2023
- Media Localization and Content Providers Merge in Sweden to Form JuneFirst - 24 May 2023
- Media Localization Provider Visual Data Acquires France’s EVA - 30 May 2023
- Unbabel Acquires Website Localization SaaS Tool Bablic - 5 Jun 2023
- Meet the 100+ New Owners of Sandberg Translation Partners - 6 Jun 2023
- GLOBO Buys Two Midwest Healthcare Interpreting Companies - 21 Jun 2023
- Media Localization Firm Iyuno Acquires Dubbing and Subtitling Company Ak’la Kara - 23 Jun 2023
- France’s Powerling Acquires US-based Translation Boutique TrueLanguage - 28 Jun 2023
- Italy’s Creative Words Acquires Local Boutique Translation Agency Opitrad - 28 Jun 2023
- RWS Acquires CMS for Legal and Legislative Content for up to USD 47.3M - 13 Jul 2023
- AI Entertainment Localizer XL8 Acquires Transcription and Translation Provider AHT - 18 Jul 2023
- ElaN Languages Acquires Germany’s Lingua-World from GEtraNet - 19 Jul 2023
- LanguageWire Acquires Finnish Translation and Interpreting Provider Delingua - 3 Aug 2023
- Australian Certified Translation Platform AcudocX Acquires Translato.ai in IP Deal - 28 Aug 2023
- Germany’s DEMAN Buys Two Local Boutique Translation Companies - 9 Oct 2023
- Canadian Media Localizer difuze Acquires Post-Production Studio WANTED! - 23 Oct 2023
- Video Remote Interpreting Provider Cloudbreak Health to be Sold for USD 180m - 21 Nov 2023
- Belgium’s ElaN Languages Acquires Dutch Language Service Provider AVB Vertalingen - 22 Nov 2023
- Game Localization Provider All-in Global Acquires Rival Translation Royale - 22 Nov 2023
- Legal Interpreting Provider Magna Acquires Court Reporting Company Zanaras - 7 Dec 2023
2024 Translation Business Acquisitions
- Systran Acquired by French Data Processing Specialist ChapsVision - 12 Jan 2024
- Powerling Buys WCS Group Out of Bankruptcy - 19 Jan 2024
- Legal Solutions, Translation Provider Trustpoint.One Acquires UK-Based Balthasar Ltd. - 22 Jan 2024
- MadCap Software, Owner of TMS MadCap Lingo, Buys Learning Content Platform Xyleme - 30 Jan 2024
- Jonckers and Acclaro Merger Creates New Europe-US Leader LSP - 6 Feb 2024
- Nordtext Expands Presence in Finland with Acquisition of Fluentic-Owned Transfluent - 7 Feb 2024
- Media Localizer Iyuno Acquires Unidub, Establishes Presence in South America - 7 Feb 2024
- BLEND Acquires Israeli LSP Manpower Language Solutions - 22 Feb 2024
- Poland’s Diuna Group Acquires LSP Yellow - 13 Mar 2024
- TransPerfect Acquires Remote Simultaneous Interpretation Platform TheSpeech - 25 Mar 2024
- Inside the Textshuttle and Supertext Merger - 18 Apr 2024
- TransPerfect Acquires Media Localization Firm Content Lab - 23 Apr 2024
- LanguageWire Buys DITA Localization Specialist WhP in France - 26 Apr 2024
- Supertext USA Spins Off from Swiss Parent Company, Rebrands as WE ARE VERY, Inc - 8 May 2024
- Shares in Game Localizer Keywords Studios Rally on GBP 2.2bn Buyout Offer - 21 May 2024
- Melbourne LSP Ethnolink Acquires Sydney-Based Competitor Language Professionals - 27 May 2024
- ZOO Digital Acquires Italian Dubbing Partner LogoSound - 11 Jun 2024
- Translate.One Acquires UK Interpreting Provider Enable2 - 27 Jun 2024
- Ireland’s Translit Acquired by Private Equity-Backed Valorem Group - 27 Jun 2024
- Canadian LSP difuze Acquires Accessibility Division of Blackstone Sight and Sound - 2 Jul 2024
- Toppan Digital Language Acquires Meinrad, Expands into DACH Region - 11 Jul 2024
- Translate.One Acquires Barcelona-Based Language Services Provider Intertext - 6 Aug 2024
- EasyTranslate Acquires Danish Rival World Translation - 10 Sep 2024
- Magna Merger with ERSA Creates Legal Services Firm with Large Interpreting Business - 1 Oct 2024
- Propio Language Services Acquires United Language Group - 9 Oct 2024
- Wolfestone Adds on Fellow UK Language Services Provider TauRho Transcribes - 1 Nov 2024
- AI Video Editing Startup Captions Acquires Digital Canvas Platform Alpaca - 28 Nov 2024
- ArKadia Translations Acquires German Financial Translation Provider ALinea - 11 Dec 2024
- LXT Acquires clickworker in Data-for-AI Market Consolidation Move - 17 Dec 2024
- Stoquart Acquires Fellow Belgian Language Services Provider ETC Europe - 19 Dec 2024
2025 Translation Business Acquisitions
- DEMAN Acquires Life Sciences Specialist German Language Services (GLS) - 24 Jan 2025
- Sorenson Communications Acquires Two AI Sign Language Interpreting Tech Startups - 30 Jan 2025
- TransPerfect Acquires Apostroph Group, Expands Presence in Switzerland and Germany - 10 Feb 2025
- Korn Translations and Zaum Langs Merged Under Idlewild Burg Group - 5 Mar 2025
- BlueLion and GATS Merge, Debut New Israeli Language Service Provider TransNarrative - 20 Mar 2025
- TransPerfect Continues 2025 Acquisition Spree, Buys Media Localizer SPEEECH - 2 Apr 2025
- Diuna Group Acquires Intertext in Polish Market Consolidation - 2 Apr 2025
