M&A Deal Summary

Housatonic Partners Acquires TELAV

On August 1, 1999, private equity firm Housatonic Partners acquired media company TELAV

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Housatonic Partners’ 2nd transaction in the Media sector.
  • This is Housatonic Partners’ 10th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Housatonic Partners’ 1st transaction in Texas.
Investment Fate
  • TELAV was sold to a strategic buyer in 2003.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 1999-08-01
Target TELAV
Sector Media
Buyer(s) Housatonic Partners
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

TELAV

Dallas, Texas, United States
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Buyer

Housatonic Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1994
PE ASSETS 1.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Housatonic Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in growing, profitable companies with a preference for businesses generating recurring revenues. Target sectors include services, media, and communications. Housatonic looks to commit $10 to $30 million per transaction to support buyouts and recapitalizations. Prospective companies generally have high gross margins and moderate capital intensity. Housatonic was formed in 1994 and has offices in Boston, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 10 of 79
Sector: Media M&A 2 of 8
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 8 of 33
State: Texas M&A 1 of 5
Country: United States M&A 10 of 73
Year: 1999 M&A 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1999-05-17 Cambridge Communications

United States

Cambridge Communications was formed in 1996 to acquire the cable television systems of Classic Cable in New Mexico and Washington State.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1999-09-01 CaseCentral

San Francisco, California, United States

CaseCentral is a provider of cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporations and law firms to simplify and take control of electronic discovery (eDiscovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations. CaseCentral enables repeatable, defensible and measurable business processes that significantly reduce eDiscovery risk, cost and time.

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