M&A Deal Summary

Baker Capital Acquires Wine.com

On September 8, 2004, private equity firm Baker Capital acquired e-commerce company Wine.com for 20M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Baker Capital’s 1st transaction in the E-Commerce sector.
  • This is Baker Capital’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Baker Capital’s 8th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Baker Capital’s 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-09-08
Target Wine.com
Sector E-Commerce
Buyer(s) Baker Capital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Deal Value 20M USD

Target

Wine.com

San Francisco,, California, United States
website
Wine.com is an online wine retailer, offering thousands of wines, wine gifts, gift baskets, corporate gifts and monthly wine clubs.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Baker Capital

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1995
PE ASSETS 1.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Baker Capital is a specialist private equity firm focused on the opportunity in the communications industry created by deregulation, new technology, and growth of the internet. Baker looks for investments in communications equipment, services, and applications providers. Baker prefers to exit investments within 5 years. Baker Capital was formed in 1995 and is based in New York City.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 17
Sector (E-Commerce) 1 of 1
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 9 of 11
State (California) 2 of 3
Country (United States) 8 of 11
Year (2004) 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 3
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-04-07 Sand Video

Andover, Massachusetts, United States

Sand Video, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer focused on developing and marketing superior next generation, standards-based semiconductor video compression technology for a broad range of video applications.

Sell $78M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-10-12 Connected

Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

Connected Corp. is a provider of storage software for automated protection, archiving and recovery of distributed data. The company's powerful, yet easy-to-use solutions help customers protect and centrally manage data from desktop and laptop PCs, Windows servers and email systems, while eliminating costs and burdens associated with capturing and recovering highly distributed data. Customers range from mid-size businesses to more than 600 of the world's largest corporations, including Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, EDS, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Schlumberger and Toyota. The company's solutions are offered as a subscription service or as licensed software.

Sell $117M
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