Growth Capital • Information Technology

ABRY Partners Invests In e-shelter facility services

On December 2, 2011, private equity firm ABRY Partners invested in information technology company e-shelter facility services

Investment Context

This is ABRY Partners’ 13th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
This is ABRY Partners’ 1st transaction in Germany.

Investment Fate

e-shelter facility services was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2015.

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Investment Summary
Date	December 2, 2011
Target	e-shelter facility services
Sector	Information Technology
Investor(s)	ABRY Partners
Deal Type	Growth Capital
Advisor(s)	Clifford Chance (Legal)

Target Company

e-shelter facility services

Frankfurt, Germany

e-shelter plans, develops and operates high-availability data centers whose infrastructures provide the highest level of physical security and operational reliability. At its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, e-shelter has created Europe's single largest campus for resilient operating environments which is protected through multi-level security systems and a dedicated on-site service and control center. In addition to two locations in Frankfurt e-shelter offers high-availability datacenter space at five other locations: in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich as well as in London and Zurich.

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Investor Overview 1

Investor

ABRY Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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 Context for Investor	#
Overall	74 of 175
Sector: Information Technology	13 of 38
Type: Growth Capital	8 of 48
Country: Germany	1 of 2
Year: 2011	11 of 11

PREVIOUS DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2011-11-17	HealthTran Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States HealthTrans uses an effective blend of technology and professional services to optimize all aspects of benefit plans.	Sell	$250M

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2011-11-17

HealthTran

Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States

HealthTrans uses an effective blend of technology and professional services to optimize all aspects of benefit plans.

Sell

$250M

FOLLOWING DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2012-01-01	Sentrum London, United Kingdom Sentrum is a UK data centre owner and operator specialising in the design, build and management of bespoke data centre solutions for the multinational corporate market.	Sell	-

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2012-01-01

Sentrum

London, United Kingdom

Sentrum is a UK data centre owner and operator specialising in the design, build and management of bespoke data centre solutions for the multinational corporate market.