R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company will be adding to its assets after announcing it will be acquiring financial data and analytics leader EDGAR Online. The deal is valued at approximately $70.5 million including debt and the $1.09 per common share. This would expand R.R. Donnelley’s Digital Communications and eXtensible Business Reporting Language services which EDGAR Online has been providing the company since 2008. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to R.R. Donnelley’s earnings in the first full year after the closing of the transaction and is subject to customary closing conditions.The deal is expected to close during the third quarter of 2012.
