S&P Global agreed to acquire With Intelligence from Motive Partners for $1.8 billion in cash, positioning itself as the dominant provider of private markets data and intelligence. The deal closes S&P's coverage gap in alternatives—hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, and private credit—where transparency has historically lagged public equities. With Intelligence operates a subscription-driven platform that tracks 10,000 institutional allocators and 5,000 asset managers, providing granular data on fundraising, performance, and manager selection.
The transaction is structured as an all-cash purchase, expected to close in the second half of 2025 pending regulatory approval. With Intelligence generates revenue through enterprise subscriptions sold to asset managers, placement agents, and institutional investors. The company employs roughly 400 people across London, New York, and Hong Kong, with proprietary databases covering capital flows, investor relationships, and fund terms. S&P Global plans to integrate the platform into its Market Intelligence division, which already serves 30,000 institutional clients and posted $3.4 billion in revenue last year. The deal represents S&P's largest acquisition since IHS Markit in 2022 for $44 billion.
This matters because private markets have grown faster than the infrastructure to measure them. Assets under management in private equity alone exceeded $13 trillion globally by the end of 2024, yet allocators rely on stale quarterly reports, inconsistent valuations, and incomplete fundraising data. With Intelligence's real-time tracking of capital commitments, LP-GP relationships, and benchmark performance fills a transparency gap that has cost allocators basis points in fee negotiations and months in due diligence. S&P's distribution reach now allows that intelligence to flow directly into Bloomberg Terminal-equivalent workflows, reducing the friction between private market activity and portfolio decision-making. Fund managers who previously operated in relative obscurity will find their fundraising cycles, investor bases, and performance metrics benchmarked against peers in near real-time.
The acquisition also signals S&P's intent to own the data layer beneath capital allocation. Financial information providers have spent the last decade pivoting from retrospective reporting to predictive analytics, and private markets represent the last frontier. With Intelligence's datasets—updated weekly rather than quarterly—enable S&P to offer forward-looking indicators on fundraising momentum, investor sentiment, and sector rotation within alternatives. That shifts the company's value proposition from historical record-keeping to actionable intelligence. Competing platforms like PitchBook and Preqin now face a rival with enterprise-grade integration, global distribution, and the capital to acquire adjacent datasets. The $1.8 billion price reflects a multiple in the mid-teens on revenue, consistent with high-margin, subscription-based intelligence businesses.
Operators should monitor S&P's product roadmap for integration milestones, particularly whether With Intelligence data surfaces within Capital IQ or remains a standalone module. Allocators should track whether S&P bundles the platform into existing Market Intelligence contracts or prices it separately, as bundling would force re-evaluation of competing subscriptions. The transaction also sets a valuation benchmark for private markets data assets—expect Motive Partners to deploy proceeds into similar intelligence platforms in adjacent verticals. Regulatory filings in Q2 will clarify whether antitrust reviews extend the timeline, though overlap with S&P's existing offerings appears minimal.
S&P Global now controls the infrastructure that defines how institutions measure, compare, and allocate to private markets. That is not a market share gain. That is category ownership.
The takeaway
S&P Global's $1.8 billion acquisition of With Intelligence consolidates private markets intelligence, shifting transparency from quarterly lag to near real-time benchmarking.
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