# Persistent secures 83.25% stake in Nagarro: integrates AI FDE capabilities into a 46,000-person digital engineering platform

> Persistent's Nagarro acquisition offer has crossed the control threshold, cumulatively locking 83.25% of the equity and plans to pursue delisting after closing. The parties intend to form an AI-led digital engineering group with roughly USD 2,900,000,000 in revenue and 46,000 employees, and explicitly strengthen AI Forward Deployed Engineering capabilities.

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- Author: FDEPE Research Desk
- Published: 2026-09-23T08:50:43.969Z
- Updated: 2026-09-23T08:53:29.572Z
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September 22, 2026, Persistent Systems announced the preliminary results of its voluntary public tender offer for Germany's Nagarro SE: the public offer has secured 61.15% of the equity, plus about 22.10% previously locked from the largest shareholder Lantano, bringing the total locked to 83.25% of equity and voting rights. The minimum acceptance condition of 50% plus one share has been met. Persistent also reiterated that after deal closing it will push Nagarro to delist from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and position the combined group as an AI-led digital engineering and enterprise modernization platform.

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## Facts

- The current acceptance period ended on September 17, 2026, with a total of 7,568,145 Nagarro shares submitted, representing about 61.15% of the total equity and voting rights; together with the approximately 22.10% that Persistent had previously locked through the Lantano share purchase agreement, the aggregate reaches 83.25%.
- The additional acceptance period for remaining shareholders runs from September 23, 2026 to October 6, with the cash offer remaining at EUR 81 per share; the transaction still requires a small amount of regulatory approval, and Persistent expects to complete closing by the end of the first quarter of 2027 at the latest.
- When the parties signed the Business Combination Agreement on June 2026, they disclosed that the combined group is expected to generate an approximate revenue run-rate of USD 2,900,000,000, employ more than 46,000 staff, and operate in over 40 countries; North American operations are projected to exceed USD 1,700,000,000, and Europe over USD 600,000,000.
- The combination plan explicitly calls for strengthening AI Forward Deployed Engineering: merging Persistent's AI-led engineering capabilities, platform and frontier model collaboration resources with Nagarro's AI, digital engineering, ERP and CX capabilities to execute large-scale enterprise AI transformation projects.
- Nagarro's 2025 revenue was about EUR 1,000,000,000; Persistent's most recent fiscal year revenue was about USD 1,700,000,000. The parties said that after the transaction, Persistent's European revenue share is expected to rise from 9% in FY26 to 22%.

[nagarro.com ↗](https://www.nagarro.com/en/news-press-release/persistent-nagarro-business-combination-agreement)

## Analysis

The research value of this transaction lies in the simultaneous integration of control and AI engineering capabilities within a single organizational design. Persistent has already crossed the control threshold and plans to delist after closing; its public proposal embeds AI FDE directly into the post‑merger capability stack and integrates an engineering organization of roughly 46,000 people, more than 350 core client relationships, and ERP/CX implementation capabilities with the AI platform. If execution proceeds smoothly, this structure can advance AI from isolated projects to a standardized delivery system across industries and clients, and translate greater client coverage, AI project delivery capacity and geographic synergy into revenue growth and margin expansion. However, the publicly available materials have not yet provided realized EBITDA, personnel efficiency or cost‑synergy data attributable to AI.

[persistent.com ↗](https://www.persistent.com/persistent-and-nagarro-sign-business-combination-agreement/)

## Counterevidence

- 83.25% of the share capital is already locked/submitted for acceptance, the transaction has not yet been fully closed; officials expect the closing to occur by the end of the first quarter of 2027, and note that a small amount of regulatory approvals remain pending.
- Approximately a run-rate of USD 2,900,000,000 in revenue, 46,000+ employees and the geographic revenue structure represent the post‑merger scale description, which does not indicate that AI has already generated the corresponding incremental revenue and cannot be used to infer AI‑contributed EBITDA.
- Both parties' public documents emphasize AI‑led digital engineering and AI Forward Deployed Engineering, but have not disclosed post‑merger specifics on layoffs, labor productivity, gross margin improvements, delivery cycle reductions, or customer revenue growth targets.
- The Business Combination Agreement also stresses retaining Nagarro’s management, culture and existing employee arrangements; Persistent further commits not to enter into a control agreement or profit‑and‑loss transfer agreement within two years after closing, so the pace of integration and the degree of AI standardization remain to be validated.

[nagarro.com ↗](https://www.nagarro.com/en/news-press-release/persistent-nagarro-business-combination-agreement)

[Persistent Systems｜Persistent's Takeover Offer for Nagarro Successful｜2026-09-22 ↗](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/persistents-takeover-offer-for-nagarro-successful-302886309.html)

[Nagarro｜Persistent and Nagarro sign Business Combination Agreement to form the Persistent–Nagarro Group, a global leader in AI-led digital engineering｜2026-06 ↗](https://www.nagarro.com/en/news-press-release/persistent-nagarro-business-combination-agreement)

[Persistent Systems｜Persistent and Nagarro sign a Business Combination Agreement｜2026-06 ↗](https://www.persistent.com/persistent-and-nagarro-sign-business-combination-agreement/)

## Source links

- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/persistents-takeover-offer-for-nagarro-successful-302886309.html
- https://www.nagarro.com/en/news-press-release/persistent-nagarro-business-combination-agreement
- https://www.persistent.com/persistent-and-nagarro-sign-business-combination-agreement/