M&A Deal Summary

Marlin Equity Partners Acquires Uniface

On January 31, 2014, private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners acquired software company Uniface from Compuware

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Marlin Equity Partners’ 14th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Marlin Equity Partners’ 1st transaction in the Netherlands.
Investment Fate
  • Uniface was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2021.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-01-31
Target Uniface
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Marlin Equity Partners
Sellers(s) Compuware
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Uniface

Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Uniface is a provider of model-driven, low-code application development and deployment software. Uniface was founded in 1984 and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Marlin Equity Partners

Hermosa Beach, California, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2005
PE ASSETS 8.5B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Marlin Equity's headquarters in Hermosa Beach, California.
Marlin Equity's headquarters in Hermosa Beach, California.

Marlin Equity Partners is a private investment firm focused on acquiring distressed businesses with sales of $10 million to $2 billion. Marlin has a special interest in non-core or underperforming divisions of larger corporations, as well as companies facing some sort of financial, operational or market-related transition. Marlin is a generalist investor and will consider opportunities in technology (software, IT, payment systems, hardware, communications, internet), healthcare, consumer (apparel, retail, consumer products, food/beverage), services (business, financial, consumer, education), manufacturing (automotive, industrial, metals, plastics), aerospace, defense, and media. Marlin prefers businesses with scalable business models, strong installed customer bases, defensible market positions, and barriers to entry. Marlin Equity Partners was formed in 2005 and is based in Hermosa Beach, California with an additional office in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 37 of 107
Sector (Software) 14 of 33
Type (Divestiture) 13 of 24
Country (Netherlands) 1 of 1
Year (2014) 3 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-01-08 Lochbridge

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Lochbridge, Inc. is a provider of broad range of IT services for distributed, mainframe and mobile environments, and provides guidance to its customers that helps maximize the value of their technology.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-06-23 Capario

Santa Ana, California, United States

Capario, Inc. is a healthcare technology company that facilitates the electronic exchange of medical claims and clinical information among hospitals, doctors, medical laboratories and insurance payers.

Sell $115M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Compuware

Detroit, Michigan, United States

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Category Company
Founded 1973
Sector Information Technology
Employees3,066
Revenue 721M USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION

Compuware Corp. empowers the world’s largest companies to excel in the digital economy by taking full advantage of their mainframe investments. Compuware Corp. does this by delivering innovative software that enables IT, professionals, with mainstream skills to develop, deliver and support mainframe applications with ease and agility. Our modernized solutions uniquely automate mainframe work, integrate into a cross-platform DevOps toolchain and measure software delivery quality, velocity and efficiency.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 5
Sector (Software) 2 of 3
Type (Divestiture) 3 of 3
Country (Netherlands) 1 of 1
Year (2014) 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-01-08 Lochbridge

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Lochbridge, Inc. is a provider of broad range of IT services for distributed, mainframe and mobile environments, and provides guidance to its customers that helps maximize the value of their technology.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-01-05 ISPW BenchMark Technologies

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

ISPW BenchMark Technologies Ltd. supplies software and services to modernize mainframe and distributed systems to create a single point of control for all changes across the enterprise.

Buy -