M&A Deal Summary |
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| Date | 2006-05-21 |
| Target | Nielsen |
| Sector | Information Services |
| Buyer(s) |
Stockwell Capital
Centerview Capital The Blackstone Group The Carlyle Group Hellman & Friedman KKR Thomas H. Lee Partners Ardian HarbourVest Partners |
| Deal Type | Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) |
| Deal Value | 12.7B USD |
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| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2002 |
| PE ASSETS | 750M USD |
| Size | Middle-Market |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Stockwell Capital is a co-investment firm, focused on making minority investments alongside private equity sponsors. Stockwell is a generalist investor, with no sector preferences and looks to commit $3 to $10 million per investment. The Firm will consider opportunities throughout the US and Europe and prefers late-stage or growth equity situations. Stockwell Capital was formed in 2002 and is based in Chicago.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 21 of 44 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 1 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 9 of 13 |
| State (New York) | 1 of 3 |
| Country (United States) | 16 of 35 |
| Year (2006) | 4 of 10 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 5 of 27 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-03 |
The Sports Authority
Englewood, Colorado, United States The Sports Authority, Inc. is a provider of full-line sporting goods retailers offering a comprehensive high-quality assortment of brand name sporting apparel and equipment at competitive prices. The company operates over 400 stores in 45 states. The Sports Authority, Inc. was formed in 1928 and is based in Englewood, Colorado. |
Buy | $1.4B |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-07-14 |
Petco Health and Wellness Company
San Diego, California, United States Petco Health and Wellness Company is a health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents, and their own Petco partners. The company is focused on delivering comprehensive wellness solutions through its products and services, and creating communities that deepen the pet-pet parent bond. It operates more than 1,500 Petco locations across the U.S., Mexico, and Puerto Rico, including a growing network of more than 100 in-store veterinary hospitals, and offer a complete online resource for pet health and wellness. Petco Health and Wellness Company was founded in 1965 and is based in San Diego, California. |
Buy | $1.8B |
| Category | Growth Capital Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Size | Large |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Centerview Capital Holdings is a private equity firm focused on investing in high-growth consumer and technology companies. The Firm's consumer group looks to commit $50 to $150 million through minority and majority investments in businesses operating in the food & beverage, household & consumer products, personal care/health & wellness, and consumer services sectors. The Firm's technology group looks to partner with management teams to accelerate growth. Centerview Capital is affiliated with investment bank Centerview Partners and is based in Menlo Park, California.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 1 of 8 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 1 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 1 of 2 |
| State (New York) | 1 of 1 |
| Country (United States) | 1 of 8 |
| Year (2006) | 1 of 1 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 1 of 2 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-05-22 |
Planful
San Francisco, California, United States Planful is a provider of complete suite of enterprise performance management solutions built from the ground up as cloud-based applications. Planful was founded in 2000 and is based in San Francisco, California. |
Buy | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1987 |
| PE ASSETS | 131.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
The Blackstone Group is a global alternative investment management firm. The Firm's investment activities span real estate, secondary investments, hedge funds, credit, infrastructure, and private equity. Blackstone's private equity group targets opportunities globally including buyout acquisitions of established companies, development projects, growth equity financings, and industry consolidations. Sectors of interest include automotive, healthcare, chemicals, industrial, commercial property, lodging, communications, media/publishing, consumer & retail, packaging, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, energy, technology, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, theme parks, food & beverage, and transportation. Blackstone's private equity real estate group looks for opportunities across North/South America, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, and Europe. The real estate group will consider both equity and debt investments. Areas of interest include healthcare, hotel, industrial, office, residential, and retail. The Blackstone Group was formed in 1987 and is based in New York City.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 94 of 335 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 4 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 38 of 75 |
| State (New York) | 7 of 22 |
| Country (United States) | 66 of 210 |
| Year (2006) | 4 of 16 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 10 of 171 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-05 |
Cumulus Media Partners
Atlanta, Georgia, United States Cumulus Media Partners, LLC owns and operates radio broadcasting stations. The company, through its AM and FM radio stations, serves listeners, communities, advertisers, and agencies in Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, York, Albemarle, and Anniston. The company was formerly known as Susquehanna Radio Corp. and it changed its name to Cumulus Media Partners, LLC in May, 2006. |
Buy | $1.3B |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-06-30 |
ReAble Therapeutics
Austin, Texas, United States ReAble Therapeutics, Inc. is a diversified rehabilitation and orthopedic devices company that develops, manufactures and distributes a comprehensive range of electrotherapy, traction, chiropractic and iontophoresis devices, in addition to a broad line of orthopedic implants, used by orthopedic surgeons, physicians, therapists and other healthcare professionals to treat patients with musculoskeletal conditions resulting from degenerative diseases, deformities, traumatic events and sports-related injuries. |
Buy | $870M |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1987 |
| PE ASSETS | 435.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that pursues private equity, credit, and real estate investments worldwide. Carlyle's private equity practice practice pursues buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. With offices in 19 countries, Carlyle can easily target opportunities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America. Broad sectors of interest include aerospace, defense, automotive and transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology services, business services, telecommunications and media. The Carlyle Group was formed in 1987 and is based in Washington DC.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 229 of 742 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 8 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 97 of 219 |
| State (New York) | 5 of 24 |
| Country (United States) | 135 of 348 |
| Year (2006) | 20 of 51 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 5 of 136 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-17 |
Transics International NV
Leper, Belgium Transics International NV provides telematics solutions for the road transport industry. |
Buy | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-31 |
Centrata
Redwood City, California, United States Centrata delivers a suite of tools to help data center operators manage the entire service delivery lifecycle. |
Sell | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1984 |
| PE ASSETS | 50.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is a large private equity firm on the West Coast of the US. H&F focuses on control and minority investments in a variety of transaction structures and will consider opportunities across the US and Europe. H&F seeks buyouts and business in need of restructurings that operate in defensible markets with predictable revenue and earnings growth. Target sectors include financial services, healthcare, indusrial, energy, insurance, media, marketing, professional services, software, and information services. H&F's target equity investment size is $300 million to $1 billion. Hellman & Friedman was formed in 1984 and has offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 23 of 88 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 6 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 6 of 15 |
| State (New York) | 3 of 8 |
| Country (United States) | 18 of 61 |
| Year (2006) | 3 of 8 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 3 of 39 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-05 |
Artisan Partners Distributors
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Artisan Partners Limited Partnership is a leading independent, multi-product investment management firm that currently manages approximately $50 billion in assets. The Company, founded in 1994, has investment teams located in Milwaukee (its headquarters), San Francisco, and Atlanta. |
Buy | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-25 |
Gartmore Group
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Gartmore Investment Management plc is a independent, multi-product asset management firm providing long-only and alternative investment products to retail and institutional investors in the UK, Continental Europe, the U.S., Japan, and Latin America. |
Buy | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1976 |
| PE ASSETS | 510.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
KKR is a global investment firm founded by Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts. The Firm is separated into several business segments including private markets, public markets, capital markets, and other principal activities. KKR's private equity practice invests in management buyouts, take privates, corporate divestitures, industry consolidations, and partnerships with family-owned companies. KKR will invest in a broad range of industries and companies and will consider businesses throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. Sectors of interest include chemicals, consumer products, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare, industrial, media/communications, retail, and technology. In addition to its traditional principal investment activity business, KKR also invests in infrastructure assets. KKR was formed in 1976 and is based in New York, New York.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 44 of 481 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 2 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 14 of 66 |
| State (New York) | 3 of 19 |
| Country (United States) | 27 of 210 |
| Year (2006) | 6 of 13 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 6 of 104 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-04-18 |
Aricent
Santa Clara, California, United States Aricent is a global digital leader in integrated design and engineering services, primarily serving clients of the Communications and Technology, Semiconductor and Software industries. Headquartered in Santa Clara (California), Aricent brings design and engineering capabilities to help its clients get to market faster, transform legacy products to digital, and create new revenue opportunities. Among the company’s assets is the iconic brand frog, which has with world-class design and client experience capabilities, outstanding knowledge and intellectual property for the Telecom, Software and Semiconductors industries. Aricent also has solid experience in shaping large engineering outsourcing deals and key capabilities in key emerging technologies including Artifical Intelligence, Cognitive Systems, Internet of Things and software frameworks. |
Buy | $900M |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-06-01 |
BIS Industries
Sydney, Australia BIS Industries is a provider of specialized logistics and materials handling solutions for the world’s biggest mining and resource companies. BIS Industries is based in Sydney, Australia. |
Buy | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1974 |
| PE ASSETS | 35.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) is a private equity firm that seeks buyout, expansion, consolidation, distressed, and recapitalization investments across various industries. Sectors of interest include business and information services, consumer products/retail, financial services, healthcare, industrial, and media/communications. THL looks to invest $100 to $400 million in companies valued up to $2.5 billion. THL was formed in 1974 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 26 of 90 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 2 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 10 of 17 |
| State (New York) | 3 of 5 |
| Country (United States) | 18 of 77 |
| Year (2006) | 4 of 6 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 3 of 28 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-05 |
Cumulus Media Partners
Atlanta, Georgia, United States Cumulus Media Partners, LLC owns and operates radio broadcasting stations. The company, through its AM and FM radio stations, serves listeners, communities, advertisers, and agencies in Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, York, Albemarle, and Anniston. The company was formerly known as Susquehanna Radio Corp. and it changed its name to Cumulus Media Partners, LLC in May, 2006. |
Buy | $1.3B |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-31 |
Intrado
Omaha, Nebraska, United States Intrado is a cloud-based, global technology partner to clients around the world. The Company's solutions connect people and organizations at the right time and in the right ways, making those mission-critical connections more relevant, engaging, and actionable - turning Information to Insight. Intrado was formed in 1986 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska. |
Buy | $3.0B |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| PE ASSETS | 125.0B 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 €150 million 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 | 51 of 418 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 3 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 28 of 108 |
| State (New York) | 1 of 3 |
| Country (United States) | 5 of 59 |
| Year (2006) | 14 of 36 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 6 of 67 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-01 |
Vulcanic
Neuilly sur Marne, France Vulcanic is a designer and manufacturer of low and medium-volume series of electrical heating and cooling solutions for the industry (heating elements, industrial radiators, thermo regulators, etc. Vulcanic was founded in 1956 and is based in Neuilly Sur Marne, France. |
Sell | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-31 |
Limoni
Bentivoglio, Italy Limoni is an Italian perfumery retail sector with a network of over 500 stores and an emerging presence in Croatia and Slovenia. Limoni also operates as a wholesaler to smaller independent perfumeries and as an exporter to international markets. Limoni is based in Bentivoglio, Italy. |
Buy | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1978 |
| PE ASSETS | 86.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
HarbourVest Partners, LLC is an investment firm that makes investments in new private equity partnerships, acquires secondary interests, and makes direct investments in operating companies. HarbourVest's largest investment area is investments in private equity funds, comprising of approximately 2/3 of HarbourVest's assets. HarbourVest's direct investment group looks for investments in growth oriented businesses at a variety of stages. The Group generally targets co-investments of $5 to $100 million, growth capital financings of $5 to $40 million, or mezzanine commitments of $5 to $20 million. Sectors of interest include software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, and financial services. HarbourVest was formed in 1997 to assume the business of Hancock Venture Partners which was formed in 1982. HarbourVest Partners is based in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 35 of 223 |
| Sector (Information Services) | 1 of 3 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 9 of 41 |
| State (New York) | 3 of 10 |
| Country (United States) | 22 of 134 |
| Year (2006) | 6 of 14 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 3 of 68 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-18 |
Nuera Communications
Somerset, New Jersey, United States Nuera Communications - a provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) infrastructure solutions. |
Sell | $85M |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-06-12 |
Flash Networks
Neptune, New Jersey, United States Flash Networks is a provider of optimization solutions that enable telecommunications operators to improve Radio Access Network spectral efficiency, boost network speed, optimize video and web traffic, and generate over-the-top revenues from the mobile internet. Flash Networks was formed in 1996 and is based in Neptune, New Jersey. |
Buy | - |
