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TowerBrook Capital Partners Acquires CapQuest Group

On August 18, 2011, private equity firm TowerBrook Capital Partners acquired financial services company CapQuest Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is TowerBrook Capital Partners’ 3rd transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is TowerBrook Capital Partners’ 5th transaction in the United Kingdom.
Investment Fate
  • CapQuest Group was sold to a strategic buyer in 2014 for 158M GBP.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-08-18
Target CapQuest Group
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) TowerBrook Capital Partners
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Advisor(s) Canaccord Genuity (Financial)
Travers Smith (Legal)

Target

CapQuest Group

Hampshire, United Kingdom
CapQuest is a consumer debt purchase and debt recovery company with approximately 330 employees. The Company’s core focus is the purchase of non-performing and semi-performing unsecured consumer loans, mainly comprising credit card and bank debt. In addition, the Company traces debtors and collects and services debts on behalf of third party customers.

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Buyer

TowerBrook Capital Partners

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2001
PE ASSETS 22.8B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

TowerBrook Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts, leveraged build-ups and distressed situation investments throughout North America and Europe. TowerBrook prefers control-oriented investments and actively pursues complex situations that other firms may avoid. Target sectors include consumer services, distribution, beverages, pharmaceuticals, media, technology, communications, software, and healthcare. TowerBrook Capital Partners was established in 2001 and is headquartered in New York City.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 32 of 101
Sector: Financial Services M&A 3 of 5
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 21 of 36
Country: United Kingdom M&A 5 of 20
Year: 2011 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-08-01 pack2pack Group N.V.

Halsteren, Belgium

Pack2Pack, is a provider in the reconditioning, recycling and distribution of steel drums and other fixed industrial packaging products. P2P also recycles used industrial packaging materials and manufactures small packaging containers from tinplate.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-01-19 Volution

Crawley, United Kingdom

Volution is a manufacturer and distributor of ventilation products. The company operates through two divisions: the Ventilation Group, which primarily supplies ventilation products for residential and commercial construction applications in the UK, the Nordics, the Benelux countries and Germany; and Torin-Sifan, which supplies motors, fans and blowers to OEMs of heating and ventilation products for both residential and commercial construction applications in Europe. Volution was founded in 2014 and is based in Crawley, England.

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