Investment Summary

ABRY Partners and VSS Capital Partners Exits Thomsons Online Benefits

On December 15, 2016, Mercer invested in software company Thomsons Online Benefits from ABRY Partners and VSS Capital Partners

Investment Highlights
  • This is Mercer’s 2nd transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Mercer’s 4th transaction in the United Kingdom.

Investment Summary

Date 2016-12-15
Target Thomsons Online Benefits
Sector Software
Investor(s) Mercer
Sellers(s) ABRY Partners
VSS Capital Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Thomsons Online Benefits

London, United Kingdom
Thomsons Online Benefits is a global benefits software business powered by its award-winning DarwinTM platform.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Mercer

New York, New York, United States

Category Company
Sector Staffing
DESCRIPTION

Mercer is engaged in talent, health, retirement, and investments. Mercer helps clients around the world advance the health, wealth, and performance of their most vital asset – their people. Mercer's more than 20,000 employees are based in 42 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries


DEAL STATS #
Overall 23 of 28
Sector: Software M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 22 of 26
Country: United Kingdom M&A 4 of 4
Year: 2016 M&A 5 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-12-05 Sirota Consulting

Purchase, New York, United States

Sirota Consulting LLC is a provider of employee engagement solutions that offers the full breadth of organizational assessments, surveys, technology, and analytics.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-08-14 Summit Strategies Group

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Summit Strategies Group is an investment consultants focused on consulting, defined contribution and outsourced CIO services. Summit Strategies Group was founded in 1995 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Seller(S) 2

SELLER

ABRY Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1989
PE ASSETS 12.8B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

ABRY Partners is a media and communications focused private equity investment firm. Specific areas of interest include television, publishing, convention/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitoring services, telephone companies, communications towers, music libraries, database providers, wireless communications, and in-store advertisers. ABRY can provide both equity and mezzanine capital, typically committing $20 to $200 million of equity or $15 to $50 million of mezzanine capital per transaction. Prospective transaction situations include buyouts, expansion financings, platform acquisitions, consolidations, and recapitalizations. ABRY Partners was formed in 1989 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 62 of 104
Sector: Software M&A 5 of 7
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 32 of 54
Country: United Kingdom M&A 3 of 7
Year: 2016 M&A 8 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-11-28 V12 Group

Red Bank, New Jersey, United States

V12 Group is a premium data provider through proprietary technology, businesses of all sizes gain access to over 5 billion premium consumer, business and automotive records. V12 Group is based in Red Bank, New Jersey.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-01-20 QuoVadis

Hamilton, Bermuda

QuoVadis is an international provider of online identity certification services. QuoVadis’ outsourced services allow customers to meet their obligations for data integrity and privacy. QuoVadis provides digital certificate and smartcard solutions to secure access for computer networks and applications, to encrypt data and transactions, and to authenticate people, devices and documents. The company is a Qualified Certification Services Provider (CSP) in Switzerland and Bermuda, and was one of the first providers worldwide authorized to issue “Extended Validation” SSL certificates.

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SELLER

VSS Capital Partners

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 4.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

VSS Capital Partners is a private equity firm that targets investments in the media, communications, education, and information services sectors. VSS looks for opportunities with valuable brand franchises, stable cash flows, and infrastructure to support add-ons. The Firm will consider businesses throughout North America and Europe valued between $50 and $750 million. Prospective investment situations include management buyouts/buy-ins, expansion or acquisition financings, recapitalizations, build-ups, going private transactions, and partnerships. VSS was formed in 1987 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 42 of 58
Sector: Software M&A 5 of 7
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 15 of 24
Country: United Kingdom M&A 7 of 7
Year: 2016 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-11-29 Coretelligent

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Coretelligent is a full-service provider of private cloud and end-to-end IT managed services and support to small and midsized businesses, predominantly financial services and life sciences. The company develops innovative technology solutions and provides a full suite of services to ensure clients receive exceptional business performance, data protection, and security. Coretelligent was formed in 2006 and is based in Needham, Massachusetts.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-02-15 VKIDZ Holdings

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States

VKIDZ Holdings, Inc. is an edtech company dedicated to helping deliver the best education to students using technology. Organized in two business units, Vkidz serves both school systems and homeschooling families with innovative, research-based educational products. Company mission is to provide superior educational experiences to students providing full support to their parents and the school systems. The products have many game-like elements reflecting the founder’s experience developing Playstation games in his previous career. Prospective employees are urged to review the open positions on the career pages on the VocabularySpellingCity and Time4Learning websites. Additionally, the company is building a board of directors and a deeper management team.

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