Intierra Resource Intelligence, a world leading supplier of business intelligence to the mineral resources sector, has released what it claims is “the mining industry’s most advanced Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) research and analysis tool. The new tool comes at a time when mergers and acquisitions in the mining sector are forecast to increase significantly through 2011, having already risen 77% to $113 billion in 2010.” The M&A module completes a suite of Intierra financial research solutions that covers capital raisings, feasibility studies, equity interests and financial ratios.
Intierra’s Managing Director, Peter Rossdeutscher, said: “The mining sector has seen significant growth in the last decade and with it there are more properties being explored and many more companies active in the sector. This kind of growth leads inevitably to consolidation. The data, tools and services provided by Intierra empower organisations to efficiently find, analyse, value, and perform due diligence on exploration and mining companies.”

The ground-breaking M&A tool is part of the IntierraLive service and allows users to identify trends by capturing and presenting merger, takeover and acquisition information both as a snapshot and as a fluid stream of activity across time. Another feature unique to Intierra’s M&A tool is the ability to build various scenarios and simulate likely activity in order to view possible combined commodity holdings and equity interests across the new potential entity.

Rossdeutscher added, “There is an enormous amount of current and impending activity in the mining sector. Along with all that activity comes a lot of information noise. Intierra with its sector-specific modules provides tailored, dependable, timely information upon which analysis and decisions can be swiftly and confidently made.”