M&A Deal Summary

Egis Capital Partners Acquires Protection One

On September 1, 1991, private equity firm Egis Capital Partners acquired safety/security company Protection One

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Egis Capital Partners’ 1st transaction in the Safety/Security sector.
  • This is Egis Capital Partners’ 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Egis Capital Partners’ 1st transaction in Illinois.
Investment Fate
  • Protection One was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2004 for 90M EUR.
  • Protection One was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2010 for 828M USD.
  • Protection One was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2015.
  • Protection One merged with another company in 2016.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 1991-09-01
Target Protection One
Sector Safety/Security
Buyer(s) Egis Capital Partners
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Protection One

Romeoville, Illinois, United States
Protection One is a security provider, protecting residential, business, national account and integrated system customers at millions of locations. Protection One provides installation, maintenance and electronic monitoring of alarm systems to single-family residential, commercial, multifamily and wholesale customers. Protection One was founded in 1988 and is based in Romeoville, Illinois.

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Buyer

Egis Capital Partners

Summit, New Jersey, United States

Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2008
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Egis Capital Partners LLC is a specialist private equity firm focused on opportunities in defense and homeland security. Egis has a target investment size of $10 to $80 million and is willing to act either as the lead investor or is willing to co-invest with larger funds on prospective transactions. Specific areas of interest include physical security services (systems integration, guard services, alarm monitoring, cash services); identity solutions (background screening, investigation services,biometrics, smart cards); and IT security (IT consulting, vulnerability assessment, application security, storage security). Egis Capital Partners LLC was formed in 2008 and is based in New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 18
Sector: Safety/Security M&A 1 of 6
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 1 of 4
State: Illinois M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 18
Year: 1991 M&A 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-07-20 Westec Intelligent Surveillance

Plano, Texas, United States

Westec is an interactive security company using IP-based technology to deliver proprietary services. The company provides customers with a full range of business improvement and outsourced solutions, from basic burglar alarms and quality security equipment to fully integrated interactive remote-monitoring systems.

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