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amana Acquires Polygon Pictures

On June 23, 2011, amana acquired software company Polygon Pictures from Advantage Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is amana’s 1st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is amana’s 1st transaction in Japan.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2011-06-23
Target Polygon Pictures
Sector Software
Buyer(s) amana
Sellers(s) Advantage Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Polygon Pictures

Tokyo, Japan
Polygon Pictures, established in 1983, is one of the oldest and most recognized digital animation studios in the world. Our production studio brings together over 300 creators from around the world, who devote their days to producing cutting-edge digital content. In addition to long-form, fully CG television series such as "Transformers Prime" (Daytime Emmy Award winner), Tron: Uprising, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, PPI creates digital animation for films, video games, exhibitions, websites and smart devices; and in 2013, we established a joint-venture studio in Malaysia, Silver Ant PPI Sdn. Bhd., in order to increase our production capabilities even further. PPI also manages licensing for our studio's original character properties like the popular penguin duo Rocky & Hopper. By fusing our unrivaled production know-how with the internationally recognized quality of Japanese animation, PPI aims to become a leading company in the content business.

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Buyer

amana

Tokyo, Japan
Category Company
Founded 1979
Sector Marketing
Employees1,013
Revenue 14.2B JPY (2022)
DESCRIPTION

The amana group’s principal businesses are design and sales of stock photography, design and production of visual content, and design and production of advertising content. amana was founded in 1979 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Japan M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 1 of 1

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SELLER

Advantage Partners

Singapore, Singapore

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 4.6B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Advantage Partners LLP is a Japanese private equity firm focused on investing public and private companies. Advantage targets businesses operating in the fields of distribution/retail, consumer products, manufacturing, telecommunications, IT/software and financial services. The Firm will consider a variety of transactions including corporate divestitures, acquisitions, buyouts, public to private, recapitalizations, and growth capital financings. Advantage Partners was formed in 1992 and is based in Tokyo.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 13 of 36
Sector: Software M&A 5 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 10 of 22
Country: Japan M&A 13 of 33
Year: 2011 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-10 GTA TeleGuam

Tamuning, Guam

GTA TeleGuam is a digital infrastructure provider of broadband, wireless, data center, and subsea cable landing services. GTA TeleGuam is based in Tamuning, Guam.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-09-21 Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technology

Qingdao, China

Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technology designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes optical communications modules and broadband multimedia subscriber terminal equipment. Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technology was founded in 2003 and is based in Qingdao, China.

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