M&A Deal Summary

Advent International Acquires Maxar

On December 16, 2022, private equity firm Advent International acquired information services company Maxar for 6.4B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Advent International’s 4th transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is Advent International’s 2nd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Advent International’s 99th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Advent International’s 4th transaction in Colorado.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2022-12-16
Target Maxar
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) Advent International
Deal Type Going Private
Deal Value 6.4B USD
Advisor(s) J.P. Morgan Securities (Financial)
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (Legal)

Target

Maxar

Westminster, Colorado, United States
Maxar is a global communications and information company providing operational solutions to commercial and government organizations worldwide. Maxar business is focused on markets and customers with strong repeat business potential, primarily in the Communications sector and the Surveillance and Intelligence sector. In addition, the Company conducts a significant amount of advanced technology development. Maxar was founded in 1969 and is based in Westminster, Colorado.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Advent International

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 76.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Advent is a global private equity firm that targets investments in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Advent's emerging market efforts are concentrated in Central Europe and Latin America. Advent seeks transactions valued between $50 million and $5 billion and can commit up to $2 billion of equity capital per investment. Broad areas of interest include business & financial services, retail & consumer, technology, media, & telecoms, healthcare & life sciences, and industrial. Prospective transaction types include buyouts, growth capital financings, take privates, and recapitalizations. Advent was formed in 1984 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 326 of 339
Sector (Information Services) 4 of 4
Type (Going Private) 17 of 19
State (Colorado) 4 of 4
Country (United States) 99 of 100
Year (2022) 13 of 14
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 47
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-11-01 IFS Energy & Resources

Denver, Colorado, United States

IFS Energy & Resources is an independent provider of software and data solutions exclusively serving the upstream oil and gas, mining, and resource industries. Professionals from more than 1,700 companies globally rely on IFS’s integrated oil and gas data, land, accounting, and production solutions to optimize their business processes and performance. IFS Energy and Resources possesses more than 90 years of experience in data and 30 years in software and has offices around the world. IFS Energy & Resources is based in Denver, Colorado.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-12-26 Suven Pharma

Hyderabad, India

Suven Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, and sells new chemical entity-based intermediates, active pharmaceutical ingredients, specialty chemicals, and formulated drugs under contract research and manufacturing services for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical companies. Suven Pharma was formed in 2018 and is based in Hyderabad, India.

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