M&A Deal Summary

Cinven Acquires My Kinda Town

On February 1, 1992, private equity firm Cinven acquired restaurant My Kinda Town

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Cinven’s 1st transaction in the Restaurants sector.
  • This is Cinven’s 4th transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 1992-02-01
Target My Kinda Town
Sector Restaurants
Buyer(s) Cinven
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

My Kinda Town

United States
My Kinda Town was a group of American themed restaurants and bars. It comprised 19 full service restaurants and bars and three home delivery operations in UK, France, Spain, Germany and Ireland. In addition there were franchise operators in Belgium, Israel and Scotland.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Cinven

London, United Kingdom

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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 31 of 182
Sector (Restaurants) 1 of 4
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 28 of 78
Country (United States) 4 of 20
Year (1992) 1 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1991-12-01 Vives Vidal Sa

Spain

Vives Vidal, the leading Spanish corsetry and swimwear manufacturer. The business was acquired by the management team from its founder who had retired. The company was strongly managed with tightly organised design and manufacturing operations and well-established and effective sales and distribution arrangements throughout Spain.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1992-03-01 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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