M&A Deal Summary

Great Point Partners Acquires Softbox

On July 8, 2014, private equity firm Great Point Partners acquired packaging company Softbox

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Great Point Partners’ 1st transaction in the Packaging sector.
  • This is Great Point Partners’ 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.
Investment Fate
  • Softbox was sold to a strategic buyer in 2021.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-07-08
Target Softbox
Sector Packaging
Buyer(s) Great Point Partners
Deal Type Recapitalization

Target

Softbox

Long Crendon, United Kingdom
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Softbox is a temperature control packaging innovator that has been designing and producing high-performance passive temperature control packaging systems for over 20 years. The company offers consistent quality to clients from strategically located global manufacturing sites throughout EMEA, the Americas, India, and the Asia Pacific. it has formed long-standing partnerships with biotech, pharmaceutical, clinical research, and logistics companies, and applied innovative thinking to overcome the challenges that clients face in managing the Cold Chain when shipping temperature-sensitive commercial and clinical trial products. Softbox was formed in 1995 and is based in Long Crendon, United Kingdom.

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Buyer

Great Point Partners

Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2003
PE ASSETS 1.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Great Point Partners is a private investment firm focused on investing in private and public healthcare companies. Great Point's private equity practice invests $7 to $50 million of growth capital in private, growing companies. Specific areas of interest within the healthcare sector includes biotechnology and life sciences, consumer health, generic drugs, health care services, information technology, insurance, medical devices, specialty pharmaceuticals, and worker compensation companies. Great Point Partners was formed in 2003 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 15 of 33
Sector (Packaging) 1 of 2
Type (Recapitalization) 5 of 15
Country (United Kingdom) 1 of 1
Year (2014) 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-04-22 CorEvitas

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

CorEvitas provides real-world evidence through syndicated registry data and analysis services, helping biopharmaceutical companies demonstrate the value of their products to clinicians, patients, payers, and regulators. Corona operates six major autoimmune registries across the US, Canada, and Japan, collecting data from over 500 participating investigator sites. CorEvitas was founded in 2001 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-12-12 Connecture

Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States

Connecture is a web-based consumer shopping, enrollment and retention platform for health insurance distribution. Connecture offers a personalized health insurance shopping experience that recommends the best fit insurance plan based on an individual’s preferences, health status, preferred providers, medications and expected out-of-pocket costs. Connecture’s customers are health insurance marketplace operators such as health plans, brokers and exchange operators, who must distribute health insurance in a cost-effective manner to a growing number of insured consumers. Connecture’s solutions automate key functions in the health insurance distribution process, allowing its customers to price and present plan options accurately to consumers and efficiently enroll, renew and manage plan members.

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