M&A Deal Summary

Oakley Capital Private Equity Acquires EliteMedianet

On June 8, 2015, private equity firm Oakley Capital Private Equity acquired internet software and services company EliteMedianet from HolidayCheck Group for 22M EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Oakley Capital Private Equity’s 7th transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Oakley Capital Private Equity’s 8th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Oakley Capital Private Equity’s 5th transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-06-08
Target EliteMedianet
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) Oakley Capital Private Equity
Sellers(s) HolidayCheck Group
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 22M EUR

Target

EliteMedianet

Hamburg, Germany
website
EliteMedianet GmbH is a premium online dating site.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Oakley Capital Private Equity

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

website


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2011
PE ASSETS 1.5B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Oakley Capital Private Equity is a mid-market, generalist private equity firm focused on investing in the UK and Western Europe. Oakley targets a variety of investment situations, including traditional buyouts, take privates, growth capital financings, secondary buyouts, and turnarounds. Oakley prefers controlling situations and looks to commit £5 to £60 million per transaction. Oakley Capital Private Equity is a unit of asset manager of Oakley Capital. The Group is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 16 of 40
Sector (Internet Software and Services) 7 of 14
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 7
Country (Germany) 5 of 12
Year (2015) 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 8 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-04-08 Parship

Hamburg, Germany

PARSHIP GmbH is an online dating platform with strong market positions in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. It was formed in 2001.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-06-26 Verivox

Heidelberg, Germany

Verivox Holdings Limited is Germany’s largest energy price comparison website.

Sell €170M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

HolidayCheck Group

Munich, Germany

website


Category Company
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees343
Revenue 14M EUR (2020)
DESCRIPTION

HolidayCheck Group is an exchange-listed Internet group. HolidayCheck Group is based in Munich, Germany.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 3
Sector (Internet Software and Services) 1 of 3
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 3
Country (Germany) 1 of 1
Year (2015) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-06-04 WebAssets B.V.

Zeist, Netherlands

WebAssets B.V. is an online portal that provides hotel and holiday destination ratings information.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-08-10 MeteoVista B.V.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

MeteoVista B.V. operates a number of weather portals in the Benelux region.

Sell -