M&A Deal Summary

Comdata Acquires IZIUM

On June 23, 2017, Comdata acquired business services company IZIUM from IK Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Comdata’s 4th transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Comdata’s 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2017-06-23
Target IZIUM
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Comdata
Sellers(s) IK Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

IZIUM

Paris, France
IZIUM offers an extensive portfolio of customer experience services, including consulting, telesales, customer services, debt collection and technical assistance, to a large client base. The Group operates 14 contact centres in France, Morocco and Madagascar. IZIUM is based in Paris, France.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Comdata

Milan, Italy

Category Company
Founded 1987
Sector Business Services
Employees14,000
DESCRIPTION

Comdata is a company for outsourcing of contact center, help desk, back office, credit management and document management services. Comdata was founded in 1987 and is based in Milan, Italy.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 4
Sector: Business Services M&A 4 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 4
Country: France M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2017 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-05-11 Overtop Projects S.L.

Viladecans, Spain

Overtop Projects S.L. operates in the voice sector in both inbound and outbound contact centres, and in the non-voice back office sector for multi-national and domestic customers in banking, insurance energy and utilities.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

IK Partners

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1989
PE ASSETS 14.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

IK Partners is a private equity firm that targets control investments in lower middle-market to large-sized companies throughout Europe. IK focuses on growth businesses located in the Benelux region, as well as Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The Firm looks to commit €10 to €300 million of equity capital per transaction and targets companies with strong cash-flows. IK Investment Partners was formerly known as Industry Kapital. IK Partners was formed in 1989 and is based in London, England.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 75 of 122
Sector: Business Services M&A 9 of 13
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 29 of 44
Country: France M&A 12 of 27
Year: 2017 M&A 3 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-06-23 Pinard Beauty Pack

Martignat, France

Pinard Group specializes in the design and manufacture of packaging solutions for prestige and luxury brands in the BPC space through the Pinard Beauty Pack (PBP) subsidiary and for pharmaceutical customers through its Lablabo subsidiary. The Group addresses prestige and masstige brands while serving a long-standing clientele. Distribution is primarily focused in France (60%) where most trades are, followed by the Rest of Europe (30%) and the US (10%). Pinard Beauty Pack was founded in 1970 and is based in Martignat, France.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-07-05 Third Bridge

London, United Kingdom

Third Bridge provides private equity firms, hedge funds, and strategy consultants with the information that they need to understand the value of their investment opportunities. Every month, company receive thousands of requests from clients, who trust to deliver on their most complex information needs. Third Bridge was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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