M&A Deal Summary

The Carlyle Group and Delinian Acquire Dealogic

On November 5, 2014, private equity firm The Carlyle Group and Delinian acquired information services company Dealogic for 700M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 5th and Delinian’s 6th transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 72nd and Delinian’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 31st and Delinian’s 8th transaction in the United Kingdom.
Investment Fate
  • Dealogic was sold to a strategic buyer in 2017.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2014-11-05
Target Dealogic
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) The Carlyle Group
Delinian
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Deal Value 700M USD
Advisor(s) Investec (Financial)
Linklaters (Legal)

Target

Dealogic

London, United Kingdom
Dealogic provides a platform of technology, content and support used by investment banks worldwide to manage and align their core operating units to optimize performance and improve competitiveness. Implemented across strategy, capital markets, sales, coverage banking and compliance, firms rely on Dealogic to interconnect their professionals to more effectively identify opportunities, cover the right clients, evaluate investor appetite, execute deals reliably and to ultimately win more business. Dealogic was founded in 1983 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Buyer(S) 2

Buyer

The Carlyle Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 435.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.

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 504 of 742
Sector (Information Services) 5 of 8
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 161 of 219
Country (United Kingdom) 31 of 53
Year (2014) 25 of 31
Size (of disclosed) 72 of 136
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-10-30 Magnit

Folsom, California, United States

Magnit is a provider of contingent workforce management solutions through a managed services program (“MSP”) and cloud-based vendor management software (“VMS”). Magnit was founded in 1991 and is based in Folsom, California.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-11-07 Syneos Health

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Syneos Health is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. Syneos Health translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Syneos Health was founded in 2010 and is based in Morrisville, North Carolina.

Sell -
Buyer

Delinian

London, United Kingdom
Category Company
Founded 1969
Sector Media
Revenue 336M GBP (2021)
DESCRIPTION

Delinian is an international publishing, events and electronic information group, delivering business information to the finance, law, energy and transport sectors for over 35 years. Delinian was founded in 1969 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 17 of 28
Sector (Information Services) 6 of 12
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 1 of 1
Country (United Kingdom) 8 of 11
Year (2014) 3 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 15
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-07-16 Mining Indaba

St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Mining Indaba, which takes place every February in Cape Town, South Africa, attracts over 7000 of the most influential professionals in African mining, making it the world's largest mining investment conference and Africa's largest mining event. Governments, investors, business leaders and regulators from more than 110 countries attend the event each year, as well as representatives from over 2300 international companies

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-07-14 Estimize

New York, New York, United States

Estimize, Inc. is the most comprehensive financial estimates sources estimates from over 7,000 hedge fund, brokerage, and independent analysts as well as a diverse community of individuals. By being more representative of market expectations, its consensus has proved to be more accurate than I/B/E/S (Institutional Brokers' Estimate System) over 69% of the time, according to research by Deutsche Bank (“The Quant View Paper”, March 2014), and its underlying technology is regarded as highly innovative by various US academic institutions. Estimize data is available on major financial research platforms including Bloomberg and is frequently cited in top-tier financial media outlets.

Buy -
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