
“Atos will also allow Maven Wave to extend its excellence into Europe and other regions of the Group. Finally, Maven Wave perfectly represents the company’s acquisition strategy, by reinforcing a key expertise of the Group to serve its organic growth acceleration.”
“Our strategic partnership with Google, the unbound imagination of our people, and our enduring ambition to build an industry-leading digital transformation firm will only be accelerated by the combination we are announcing today. Atos offers an impressive global platform of technology assets and deep expertise enabling clients to drive digital capabilities at an entirely new scale and speed while providing our people with exciting new challenges and career growth.”
Atos Background
Atos is a well-known IT consulting and digital transformation firm with 86,000 employees across 66 countries. The company has extensive M&A (merger and acquisition) experience.Deals and proposed business combinations have included:- July 2019: Atos made moves to acquire IDnomic, a European digital identity management infrastructure firm.
- July 2018: The company acquired Syntel for $3.57 billion in cash and net debt.
- December 2017: Atos attempted to buy Gemalto for $5 billion in cash.
- October 2017: Atos bought up three US healthcare IT consulting firms.
- January 2017: Atos acquired ServiceNow partner Engage ESM.