M&A Deal Summary

Comptel Acquires Axiom Systems Holdings

On April 21, 2008, Comptel acquired software company Axiom Systems Holdings from HgCapital for 7M GBP

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Comptel’s 1st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Comptel’s 0th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Comptel’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.
Investment Fate
  • Axiom Systems Holdings was divested to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2011 for 31M USD.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2008-04-21
Target Axiom Systems Holdings
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Comptel
Sellers(s) HgCapital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 7M GBP

Target

Axiom Systems Holdings

Reading, United Kingdom
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AXIOSS is a unique platform empowering Communications Service Providers with the ability to design, create and deliver next generation Triple Play services such as IPTV and VoIP, over agnostic broadband and IP networks.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Comptel

Helsinki, Finland

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Category Company
Founded 1986
Sector Software
Employees683
DESCRIPTION

Comptel is an international software and services company specialised in telecommunications and serving any company which has the need for processing staggering amount of data and acting upon it.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Software) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 1 of 1
Country (United Kingdom) 1 of 1
Year (2008) 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-08-22 Axiom Systems Holdings

Reading, United Kingdom

AXIOSS is a unique platform empowering Communications Service Providers with the ability to design, create and deliver next generation Triple Play services such as IPTV and VoIP, over agnostic broadband and IP networks.

Sell $31M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

HgCapital

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 65.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

HgCapital is a European private equity firm focused on a wide range of transactions including public-to-private leveraged buy-outs, management buy-ins, divestitures, and turnarounds. Broad sectors of interest include consumer and leisure, healthcare, industrials, services, technology, media, and renewable energy. The Firm will consider both majority and minority investment positions. HgCapital is the successor to Mercury Capital Partners, a former unit of Merill Lynch which was spun out by management in 2000. HgCapital has offices in London and Munich.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 19 of 86
Sector (Software) 2 of 18
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 7 of 41
Country (United Kingdom) 13 of 45
Year (2008) 5 of 7
Size (of disclosed) 32 of 33
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-04-11 Boosey & Hawkes

United Kingdom

Boosey & Hawkes is the world's leading classical music publisher with the largest catalogue of classical music copyrights of works by composers such as Britten, Prokofieff, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Shostakovich, Strauss and Stravinsky. It promotes the music to orchestras, opera and ballet companies, record labels, radio stations, film producers and advertisers.

Sell £126M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-06-13 Achilles

Abingdon, United Kingdom

Achilles is a partner of choice for supply chain risk and performance management. Achilles collects and validates supplier data and mitigates risks globally. This data-driven insight builds more secure, sustainable, better performing supply chains. Achilles was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Abingdon, United Kingdom.

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