Investment Summary

Exits Netgear

On July 1, 2003, invested in technology hardware company Netgear from Shamrock Capital Advisors and Halyard Capital

Investment Highlights
  • This is transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is transaction in the United States.
  • This is transaction in California.

Investment Summary

Date 2003-07-01
Target Netgear
Sector Technology Hardware
Sellers(s) Shamrock Capital Advisors
Halyard Capital
Deal Type IPO

Target

Netgear

San Jose, California, United States
Entrance to Netgear's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Netgear's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Netgear is a global networking company that delivers products to consumers, businesses and service providers. Netgear's business is managed in three specific business units: retail, commercial, and service provider. The retail business unit consists of home networking, home video security, storage and digital media products. The commercial business unit consists of business networking, storage and security solutions. The service provider business unit consists of made-to-order and retail-proven whole home networking hardware and software solutions as well as 4G LTE hotspots sold to service providers for sale to their subscribers. Netgear was formed in 1996 and is based in San Jose, California.

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Seller(S) 2

SELLER

Shamrock Capital Advisors

Los Angeles, California, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1978
PE ASSETS 3.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Shamrock Capital Advisors is a private investment focused exclusively on the media, entertainment, marketing, and communications sectors. The Firm will consider both control and minority positions and looks to commit $30 to $300 million per transaction. Target transactions include growth equity, leveraged/management buyouts, and recapitalizations. Shamrock was originally formed in 1978 as the investment vehicle for Roy Disney. The Firm is based in Los Angeles, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 27
Sector (Technology Hardware) 1 of 2
Type (IPO) 1 of 3
State (California) 1 of 10
Country (United States) 1 of 25
Year (2003) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-06-01 LifeStage Media Group

Los Angeles, California, United States

LifeStage Media Group was formed in July 2003 to acquire, consolidate and operate regional publications focused on the interests and lifestyles of people 50 years of age and older.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-11-01 PortalPlayer

San Jose, California, United States

PortalPlayer offers a base platform for next generation entertainment products such as portable digital music devices, general audio systems and streaming audio receivers, using MP3 and other popular digital compression technologies, tightly integrated with e-commerce and digital rights management.

Sell -
SELLER

Halyard Capital

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 600M USD
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Halyard Capital is a private equity firm that focuses exclusively within the media, communications and business services industries. Halyard looks to commit between $10 and $40 million of equity per transaction in companies valued up to $250 million. Investments are typically made to help support leveraged buyouts, growth equity and other structured investments. Halyard will consider both control and non-control investment situations and prefers North American based opportunities. Halyard Capital was formed in 2000 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 26
Sector (Technology Hardware) 1 of 1
Type (IPO) 1 of 1
State (California) 1 of 2
Country (United States) 1 of 26
Year (2003) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-07-01 ImpreMedia

Los Angeles, California, United States

ImpreMedia LLC is a news and Information company in the United States in Online and Print.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-03-01 Tama Broadcasting

Tampa, Florida, United States

Tama Broadcasting, Inc. is an urban radio broadcasting company which owns and operates stations in Tampa and Jacksonville, Florida.

Sell -