Joseph Watson is a Managing Director at Solomon Partners in Technology, focusing on Data, Analytics and Information Services. He joined the firm in 2023.
Joe has nearly a decade of experience advising private, public, and private-equity clients on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, private capital raises, and other financial advisory assignments.
Before joining Solomon Partners, Joe worked at Houlihan Lokey where he led the creation and expansion of the North American Data & Analytics group. Prior to Houlihan, Joe worked in M&A advisory at Quayle Munro in London. Over the course of his career, Joe has advised on over 50 corporate finance transactions in the Technology sector.
Select recent M&A transactions include:
- Sale of FiscalNote’s Oxford Analytica and Dragonfly divisions to Dow Jones, a division of News Corp
- Investment in Benchmark Mineral Intelligence by Spectrum Equity
- Investment in IMPLAN by Charlesbank
- Investment in Datassential by New Mountain Capital and Endicott Capital
- Sale of Informa’s EPFR division to Montagu Private Equity
- Sale of GeoPhy to Walker & Dunlop
- Sale of eDriving to Solera
- Sale of Informa’s Asset Intelligence division to Randall Reilly
- Sale of Enviance to Cority
- Sale of Argosy Group to PEI Media
- Sale of Hometrack to Zoopla
- Sale of Poten & Partners to BGC Partners
- Sale of Weather Decision Technologies to DTN
Joe holds a bachelor’s degree with first class honors in Mathematics and Statistics from the London School of Economics and is a CFA® Charterholder.
Select Recent Transactions
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