Industrial Tech, M&A

Bryan, Garnier & Co acts as Sole Financial Advisor to the shareholders of Halon, a leading email infrastructure software provider, on its sale to Intera Partners

Founded in 2010, Halon offers innovative solutions to revolutionise email infrastructure and security.

Halon Engage is ideal for large-scale email senders, enabling faster, more reliable email delivery with unmatched control and flexibility. This solution is designed to optimise operations, ensuring maximum performance while keeping complexity and maintenance costs low. 

For businesses prioritising email security, Halon Protect provides state-of-the-art protection, seamlessly integrating with advanced spam filters and threat detection tools. It safeguards email systems from the latest cyber threats, ensuring continuous, secure communication. 

Both solutions are built to be future-ready, adaptable, and efficient, offering long-term reliability and security.

Bryan, Garnier & Co acts as the Sole Financial Advisor to Halon and its shareholders.

Bryan, Garnier & Co conducted a competitive process involving Tier 1 Nordic and international financial sponsors and select trade buyers. Bryan, Garnier & Co advised Halon on deal strategy, buyer selection, due diligence management, transaction structure, and contract negotiations. 

Through its partnership with Intera Partners, Halon is looking to further accelerate its growth trajectory, gain market share, and establish itself as the gold standard for future-proof email infrastructure. 

This marks another landmark transaction in Bryan, Garnier & Co’s Industrial Technology and Software practises and is a further demonstration of its expertise in private equity-led transactions.

Founded in 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden, Halon is a leading provider of email infrastructure software for email service providers. The company’s cutting-edge platform leverages modern DevOps methodology and seamless autoscaling to deliver top-tier email security, deliverability and control.  

Halon offers two main SaaS solutions through a single infrastructure platform:   

  • Halon Engage: For large-scale senders who leverage email to drive revenue and optimize customer results, requiring maximum deliverability.
  • Halon Protect: For mailbox providers requiring carrier-grade mailbox performance and security to optimize customer experience. 

The company’s solutions are trusted by major global clients like Netcore, Zendesk, and Rakuten, serving 100+ clients in 30+ countries, all with the highest possible security and deliverability needs.

Intera Partners is a Finnish private equity firm founded in 2007 and headquartered in Helsinki. The company focuses on investing in mid-sized Finnish and Scandinavian companies with sales ranging from €10 to 200 million.  

Intera Partners aims to support the growth and internationaliation of its portfolio companies, typically seeking majority ownership. The firm manages two active funds with total assets under management of €585 million and counts leading Nordic and European institutional investors among its fund investors.