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Investment Summary

ABRY Partners Invests In QuoVadis

On July 10, 2007, private equity firm ABRY Partners invested in information technology company QuoVadis

Investment Highlights
  • This is ABRY Partners’ 4th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is ABRY Partners’ 1st transaction in Bermuda.
Investment Fate
  • QuoVadis was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2017.
  • QuoVadis was divested to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2019 for 45M USD.

Investment Summary
Date 2007-07-10
Target QuoVadis
Sector Information Technology
Investor(s) ABRY Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

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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Investor

ABRY Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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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 42 of 175
Sector: Information Technology M&A 4 of 38
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 2 of 48
Country: Bermuda M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2007 M&A 6 of 10
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-06-29 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
2007-07-11 CyrusOne

Dallas, Texas, United States

CyrusOne is a global REIT specializing in design, construction, and operation of more than 50 high-performance data centers worldwide. TCyrusOne was founded in 2001 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

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