M&A Deal Summary

Cinven Acquires Corgi Classics Holdings

On August 1, 1995, private equity firm Cinven acquired automotive company Corgi Classics Holdings

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Cinven’s 2nd transaction in the Automotive sector.
  • This is Cinven’s 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Cinven’s 1st transaction in Massachusetts.
Investment Fate
  • Corgi Classics Holdings was sold to a strategic buyer in 1999 for 46M USD.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 1995-08-01
Target Corgi Classics Holdings
Sector Automotive
Buyer(s) Cinven
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Corgi Classics Holdings

Leicester, Massachusetts, United States
Corgi Classics Holdings develops and markets high-quality lines of die-cast collectible products sold through retail channels in Europe, Canada, Mexico, the United States and elsewhere. Corgi Classics Holdings was founded in 1995 and is based in Leicester, Massachusetts.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Cinven

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1977
PE ASSETS 39.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Cinven is a private equity firm focused on buyout investments in growing, profitable businesses located throughout Europe and North America. Sectors of interest include business and financial services, healthcare, industrial, retail, leisure, consumer, technology, media, and telecommunications. Cinven looks to invest a minimum of €200 million in companies with minimum enterprise values of €400 million. Cinven does not invest in start-ups or development phase companies. Cinven was established in 1977 and is headquartered in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 59 of 186
Sector: Automotive M&A 2 of 4
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 48 of 77
State: Massachusetts M&A 1 of 2
Country: United States M&A 6 of 20
Year: 1995 M&A 7 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1995-07-01 BTG

United Kingdom

The company, which comprised two former public sector bodies, was established to commercialise technology arising from research carried out by public sector bodies, such as universities and government research establishments. It licensed the use of these technologies in return for royalties. It also invested directly in some of these technologies itself, although this was a minor part of its activities.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1995-09-01 Holmwoods Group of Co.

Derrimut Victoria, Australia

Holmwoods Group provides insurance in several specialist sectors, principally the provision of insurance products to the independent schools sector in the UK and the US. It also provided broking services in the corporate insurance, personal insurance, life and pensions sectors.

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