Investment Summary

Advent International Invests In Yduqs

On August 1, 2017, private equity firm Advent International invested in education company Yduqs

Investment Highlights
  • This is Advent International’s 5th transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is Advent International’s 19th transaction in Brazil.

Investment Summary

Date 2017-08-01
Target Yduqs
Sector Education
Investor(s) Advent International
Deal Type PIPE

Target

Yduqs

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Yduqs is a private post-secondary education institution that offers in-class and distance-learning undergraduate courses in the areas of exact sciences, biological sciences, and human sciences with bachelor-level, teaching-level, and associate-level programs. Yduqs was founded in 1970 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Advent International

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 91.0B 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 254 of 353
Sector: Education M&A 5 of 5
Type: PIPE M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: Brazil M&A 19 of 26
Year: 2017 M&A 12 of 14
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-07-27 First Watch

Bradenton, Florida, United States

First Watch operates full-service daytime cafés under the First Watch and The Egg & I brands. The restaurants serve breakfast, brunch, and lunch from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., seven days a week. The company provides customers a unique farm-to-table experience through a variety of healthy, traditional, and indulgent offerings, with a focus on fresh ingredients and outstanding service. First Watch was founded in 1983 and is based in Bradenton, Florida.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-08-09 Worldpay UK

Cambridge, United Kingdom

WorldPay is a provider of single card and non-card electronic payment processing services to businesses. Worldpay provides an extensive range of technology-led payment products and services to around 400,000 customers, enabling their businesses to grow and prosper. Worldpay manages the increasing complexity of the payments landscape for its customers, allowing them to accept the widest range of payment types around the world. Using its network and technology, Worldpay is able to process payments across 146 countries and 126 currencies. Worldpay helps its customers to accept more than 300 different payment types.

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