Insight
M&A has moved beyond its role as a conventional growth tool to become a powerful driver of innovation. The right deal can unlock access to new markets and verticals, diversify revenue streams, and accelerate product development.
So, what role is digital transformation playing in reshaping the RegTech landscape?
The trajectory is clear. In 2025, deal activity hit a 10-year peak with 422 transactions—up 27% year over year. We saw momentum continue into the first quarter of 2026 with 115 deals announced. Investors worldwide are increasingly focused on one of the most dynamic areas within the broader tech sector.
What’s behind this acceleration? Read more
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Seller: Perrillon Seller Details: Perillon delivers flexible and simplified EHS risk and compliance solutions to industrial enterprises across the United States, helping them efficiently manage daily compliance activities, including incident investigations, audits and inspections and environmental data reporting. Buyer Details: Lisam System's easy-to-use, flexible solutions incorporate the latest regulatory content to deliver innovative and affordable SDS and chemical management solutions designed for all major global commercial markets. Key vertical industries include: chemical, specialty chemical, energy, plastics, paints, coatings, coverings, cosmetics, aromas and flavorings, and detergents. Deal Descriptions: Perillon Software engaged Corum to find a buyer for their business. As a friends and family-funded company that accumulated a sizable amount of debt and bootstrapping the business had also restricted their growth rate relative to some of their well-heeled VC-backed competitors. After a global search with high levels of interest from a number of parties, eventual buyer emerged, Lisam Systems out of Belgium. Despite its business challenges and having to go through bankruptcy court for final resolution, Perillon achieved and exit that was in line with current market valuations. |
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