M&A Deal Summary

BumbleBeesRus Acquires Brightside Academy

On December 1, 2016, BumbleBeesRus acquired education company Brightside Academy from LLR Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is BumbleBeesRus’ 1st transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is BumbleBeesRus’ 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is BumbleBeesRus’ 1st transaction in Pennsylvania.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-12-01
Target Brightside Academy
Sector Education
Buyer(s) BumbleBeesRus
Sellers(s) LLR Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Brightside Academy

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Brightside Academy, Inc. is an urban operator of early childcare education centers, serving more than 7,000 children throughout Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

BumbleBeesRus

Brooklyn, New York, United States
Category Company
Sector Education
DESCRIPTION

BumbleBeesRus is a provider of early childhood education program for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. BumbleBeesRus is based in Brooklyn, New York.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Education) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 1 of 1
State (Pennsylvania) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2016) 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

LLR Partners

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1999
PE ASSETS 6.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

LLR is a private equity firm that makes growth capital, buyout, and recapitalization investments in mid-sized growth companies with sustainable competitive advantages. LLR looks to invest $30 to $150 million per transaction and will consider both control and minority situations. Target companies generally have at least $10 million in annual sales and are valued up to $250 million. Broad industry sectors of interest include general business services, financial services, healthcare services, education, manufacturing, consumer/retail and information technology/software. LLR will consider investments throughout the US with an emphasis on opportunities located in the Eastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the US. LLR Partners was formed in 1999 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 36 of 76
Sector (Education) 1 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 23 of 47
State (Pennsylvania) 13 of 20
Country (United States) 35 of 75
Year (2016) 5 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-12-01 Alsbridge

Dallas, Texas, United States

Alsbridge, Inc. is a consulting firm that provides data-driven benchmarking, outsourcing consulting and network advisory services for CIOs. It helps companies procure the most cost effective and value added sources globally for IT infrastructure services, network carrier services, hardware and software, application support and development, business processes and cloud services.

Sell $74M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-12-12 Revitas

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Revitas, Inc. is a provider of revenue management solutions to hundreds of organizations across highly regulated industries with complex supply chains. Revitas’s software is used to manage contract lifecycle and compliance requirements, product pricing, rebates and incentives.

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