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CBPE Capital Acquires Moody International

On April 2, 2004, private equity firm CBPE Capital acquired engineering company Moody International for 55M GBP

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is CBPE Capital’s 1st transaction in the Engineering sector.
  • This is CBPE Capital’s 4th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is CBPE Capital’s 15th transaction in the United Kingdom.
Investment Fate
  • Moody International was sold to a financial buyer in 2007 for 311M GBP.
  • Moody International was sold to a financial buyer in 2007 for 311M GBP.
  • Moody International was sold to a publicly-traded strategic buyer in 2011 for 450M GBP.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-04-02
Target Moody International
Sector Engineering
Buyer(s) CBPE Capital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Deal Value 55M GBP

Target

Moody International

Haywards Heath, United Kingdom
Moody is a global provider of technical and inspection services and management system certification. The company comprises two core businesses: Technical and Inspection Services which provides vendor inspection services and technical personnel principally to the oil and gas and infrastructure sectors; and Management System Certification which provides management systems audit and certification services for companies looking to implement international system standards, mainly IS09001 and IS014001. Founded in 1911 and headquartered in the UK, Moody has approximately 2,900 employees and contractors and operates from 100 offices located in over 60 countries enabling it to meet the requirements of its global blue chip client base.

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Buyer

CBPE Capital

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 1.3B GBP
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

CBPE Capital is a private equity firm that seeks investments in mid-sized UK-based businesses. CBPE focuses on transactions valued at between £25 million and £150 million and will consider opportunities in a variety of industries. Sectors of interest include support services (inspection testing, training/education, oil/gas services, business process outsourcing, IT, environmental services, utility services); transportation/distribution (transport infrastructure, transport services, wholesale and distribution); consumer (food/beverage, household products, media, retail); industrial (chemicals, building products, electronics/engineering, paper, packaging, aerospace/defense, automotive, capital goods); healthcare (pharmaceuticals, medical products, diagnostics); and leisure (restaurants, gaming, holiday parks, cinemas, hotels). CBPE Capital was formed in 1984 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 15 of 63
Sector: Engineering M&A 1 of 1
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 13 of 30
Country: United Kingdom M&A 15 of 58
Year: 2004 M&A 2 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 4 of 10
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-03-02 Fishers Services

Aberfeldy, United Kingdom

Fishers Services Ltd. is one of the UK's largest specialist laundry and textile rental suppliers. Fishers is Scotland's largest supplier of flat linen textile services to customers in the hospitality and leisure sector and also supplies flat linen to the healthcare sector.

Buy £23M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-06-02 Capital Incentives & Motivation

Chester, United Kingdom

Capital Incentives, based in Chester, is a leader in the creation of tailormade incentive schemes for businesses; typically used to motivate staff using voucher schemes, incentive travel or other non-monetary rewards.

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