M&A Deal Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2008-06-16 |
| Target | Guala Closures |
| Sector | Packaging |
| Buyer(s) |
Ardian
aPriori Capital Partners |
| Deal Type | Going Private |
| Deal Value | 600M EUR |
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| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| PE ASSETS | 127.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Ardian is a mega-sized diversified investment group focused on opportunities worldwide. Ardian invests across and manages funds focused on small and mid-sized buyouts, growth capital financings, mezzanine, infrastructure, real estate, and co-investment opportunities. Ardian's small-buyouts group targets controlling interests in French, German, and Italian businesses valued up to €100 million. It's mid-sized buyout group seeks businesses valued up €1.5 billion and does not have any geographic limitations. The Infrastructure team looks for European opportunities and can commit up to €1 billion per transaction. The Mezzanine group supports junior capital commitments of €5 to €80 million. In addition to direct investing, Ardian also manages various private equity fund-of-funds. Ardian was founded in 1996 and is based in Paris.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 110 of 465 |
| Sector: Packaging M&A | 2 of 8 |
| Type: Going Private M&A Deals | 6 of 16 |
| Country: Italy M&A | 5 of 37 |
| Year: 2008 M&A | 9 of 20 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 44 of 68 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-15 |
Talaris
Basingstoke, United Kingdom Talaris Ltd. designs, manufactures, sells and maintains cash management solutions with customers across the banking, retail and gaming sectors. |
Buy | £360M |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-06-20 |
Batiweb
Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France Batiweb is a BtoB web portal focusing on the housing and construction sectors. The company has grown based on a directory/ search engine business model focusing on construction products and is now one of the established leaders on its market. Batiweb was founded in 1996 and is based in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France. |
Buy | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1985 |
| PE ASSETS | 2.0B USD |
| Size | Large |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
aPriori Capital Partners (formerly DLJ Merchant Banking Partners) is a middle-market private equity firm focused on middle-market buyouts in the US and Europe. Sectors of interest include healthcare, retail, consumer, energy, business services, and industrial. aPriori was originally established in 1985 and has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 52 of 56 |
| Sector: Packaging M&A | 2 of 2 |
| Type: Going Private M&A Deals | 6 of 6 |
| Country: Italy M&A | 1 of 1 |
| Year: 2008 M&A | 4 of 5 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 9 of 12 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-05-29 |
Tygris Vendor Finance
Parsippany, New Jersey, United States Tygris Vendor Finance, Inc., (Formerly US Express Leasing, Inc. (USXL) is an independent equipment leasing company that provides financing to the healthcare, technology, office products, graphic arts and commercial and industrial equipment markets. |
Sell | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-10 |
Education & Adventure Travel Group
London, United Kingdom EAT was created through the merger of the School Travel Group (STG) and Kingswood Educational Group (Kingswood) in October 2007. EAT is a leading specialist educational travel services business, providing activity and adventure trips, educational tours and school ski trips to over 200,000 students each year. |
Buy | £100M |
