Landis+Gyr: M&A Activity

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Landis+Gyr's divestiture of Rhebo commits the company to operating without its own OT-network monitoring capability at a moment when grid cybersecurity is increasingly a procurement requirement rather than an option. Rhebo was not peripheral, it sat at the intersection of grid-edge connectivity and industrial threat detection, the precise layer where utilities and regulators are raising compliance expectations. Separating it means Landis+Gyr's metering and grid-intelligence portfolio will now depend on third-party or partner cybersecurity coverage for that function, which is a structural change in how the company positions itself in regulated utility procurement conversations. This is one of twelve M&A signals we have tracked across sectors over the last 90 days. The broader set is heavily diversified. Couche-Tard/Żabka, KKR-backed Spectris acquiring Sentech, Dragonfly Energy absorbing Dakota Lithium assets, but the Rhebo transaction has a distinct shape: a strategic divestiture of a specialist capability to a software-focused acquirer (Everfield), consistent with a pattern of energy-technology platforms shedding point solutions to sharpen core hardware and data-infrastructure positioning. That pattern has been visible across European industrial tech for several quarters. Companies executing this kind of portfolio narrowing, particularly in grid infrastructure and OT environments, face increasing demand for commercial and product leadership that can articulate security and compliance value through partner ecosystems rather than owned capability, alongside regulatory affairs leaders who can manage the gap between product scope and evolving grid-security mandates across European jurisdictions.