M&A Deal Summary

ColArt International Holdings Acquires Letraset

On June 6, 2012, ColArt International Holdings acquired business services company Letraset from Mobeus Equity Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ColArt International Holdings’ 1st transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is ColArt International Holdings’ 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-06-06
Target Letraset
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) ColArt International Holdings
Sellers(s) Mobeus Equity Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Letraset

Ashford, United Kingdom
Letraset Ltd. provides typographic services including typefaces, fonts, borders, cliparts, textures, graphics, and images.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

ColArt International Holdings

Harrow, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Distribution
DESCRIPTION

ColArt International Holdings Ltd. is a supplier of materials to professional and amateur artists and art students, providing colour, brushes and a range of accessories.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Mobeus Equity Partners

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2004
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Mobeus Equity Partners is a generalist investor in UK-based companies. Mobeus looks to invest between £2 and £20 million in a variety of transaction situations. These include MBOs, secondary buyouts, debt financings, shareholder liquidity needs, and recapitalizations. Mobeus generally targets high growth, profitable (£1 to £5 million) businesses with sustainable competitive advantages. Mobeus is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 17 of 50
Sector: Business Services M&A 5 of 10
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 8 of 27
Country: United Kingdom M&A 17 of 49
Year: 2012 M&A 3 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-06-06 Aquasium

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Aquasium is a designer and manufacturer of build process solutions. Aquasium was founded in 1995 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-07-23 Tessella

Abingdon, United Kingdom

Tessella Ltd. is an international analytics and data science consulting services organization.

Buy £18M