M&A Deal Summary

Advent International Acquires Prisma Medios de Pago

On January 22, 2019, private equity firm Advent International acquired information technology company Prisma Medios de Pago

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Advent International’s 17th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Advent International’s 6th transaction in Argentina.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2019-01-22
Target Prisma Medios de Pago
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Advent International
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Prisma Medios de Pago

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Prisma Medios de Pago is a provider of payment technology solutions, enabling connections between financial institutions, merchants, and consumers by developing high-quality and secure solutions across the whole payments value chain. Prisma Medios de Pago was founded in 1983 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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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 267 of 339
Sector (Information Technology) 17 of 32
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 139 of 150
Country (Argentina) 6 of 6
Year (2019) 2 of 16
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-01-07 Concardis

Eschborn, Germany

Concardis is a payment service provider that offers intelligent solutions to meet the extensive requirements for a modern cashless payment process the ability to accept payments made with all major credit and debit cards, including card terminals and contactless payment processes for face-to-face retailers, innovative solutions for e-commerce and m-commerce, as well as support in the form of customer management. Concardis was founded in 2003 and is based in Eschborn, Germany.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-01-28 BioDuro-Sundia

Irvine, California, United States

BioDuro-Sundia is a global life science contract research and development organization that provides biopharmaceutical clients and partners with comprehensive, fully integrated drug discovery services spanning target identification to IND filing, through to GMP manufacture of drug substance for clinical trials. BioDuro-Sundia was founded in 1996 and is based in Irvine, California.

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