M&A Deal Summary |
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Date | 2014-01-31 |
Target | Uniface |
Sector | Software |
Buyer(s) | Marlin Equity Partners |
Sellers(s) | Compuware |
Deal Type | Divestiture |
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Category | Private Equity Firm |
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Founded | 2005 |
PE ASSETS | 8.5B USD |
Size | Mega |
Type | Sector Agnostic |
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 | # |
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Overall | 37 of 107 |
Sector (Software) | 14 of 33 |
Type (Divestiture) | 13 of 24 |
Country (Netherlands) | 1 of 1 |
Year (2014) | 3 of 7 |
DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
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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 | - |
DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
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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 |
Category | Company |
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Founded | 1973 |
Sector | Information Technology |
Employees | 3,066 |
Revenue | 721M USD (2014) |
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 | # |
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Overall | 4 of 5 |
Sector (Software) | 2 of 3 |
Type (Divestiture) | 3 of 3 |
Country (Netherlands) | 1 of 1 |
Year (2014) | 3 of 3 |
DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
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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 | - |
DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
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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 | - |