Investment Summary

Evercore Capital Partners and ABRY Partners Invest In Alliantgroup

On December 1, 2013, private equity firms Evercore Capital Partners and ABRY Partners invested in business services company Alliantgroup

Investment Highlights
  • This is Evercore Capital Partners’ 2nd and ABRY Partners’ 11th transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Evercore Capital Partners’ 10th and ABRY Partners’ 78th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Evercore Capital Partners’ 2nd and ABRY Partners’ 12th transaction in Texas.

Investment Summary

Date 2013-12-01
Target Alliantgroup
Sector Business Services
Investor(s) Evercore Capital Partners
ABRY Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Alliantgroup

Houston, Texas, United States
Alliantgroup provides complex tax consulting services to U.S. companies to help them identify, calculate and claim various state, local and federal tax credits on their business tax returns. Alliant is the leader in the $10 billion Research & Development tax credit vertical, which is just one niche within a market of over 7,000 available tax credits. Alliantgroup was founded in 2001 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Evercore Capital Partners

New York, New York, United States

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1996
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Evercore Capital Partners (ECP) is the private equity arm of investment bank Evercore Partners. ECP is part of Evercore's Investment Management division which also consists of Evercore Ventures, Evercore Asset Management, and Protego Asesores, a Mexico focused private equity fund launched jointly with Discovery Capital Partners. ECP seeks investments in middle-market businesses valued greater than $50 million. ECP looks for value situations with post-investment upside, and will consider opportunities in a variety of industries. Evercore was founded in 1996 and is based in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 10 of 10
Sector: Business Services M&A 2 of 2
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Texas M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 10 of 10
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-08-12 Bollinger

Short Hills, New Jersey, United States

Bollinger, Inc. is a provider of insurance service and products placing over $1 billion in insurance premiums into the marketplace annually. The firm's business spans retail property and casualty insurance placement; wholesale brokerage and program management; and employee benefits brokerage and consultancy.

Sell $277M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-03-12 EPL Oil & Gas

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

EPL Oil & Gas, Inc. a Independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on the shallow to moderate depth waters of the Gulf of Mexico Shelf.

Sell $2.3B
Investor

ABRY Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1989
PE ASSETS 12.8B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

ABRY Partners is a media and communications focused private equity investment firm. Specific areas of interest include television, publishing, convention/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitoring services, telephone companies, communications towers, music libraries, database providers, wireless communications, and in-store advertisers. ABRY can provide both equity and mezzanine capital, typically committing $20 to $200 million of equity or $15 to $50 million of mezzanine capital per transaction. Prospective transaction situations include buyouts, expansion financings, platform acquisitions, consolidations, and recapitalizations. ABRY Partners was formed in 1989 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 90 of 175
Sector: Business Services M&A 11 of 23
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 13 of 48
State: Texas M&A 12 of 18
Country: United States M&A 78 of 145
Year: 2013 M&A 6 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-11-11 One Source Networks

San Antonio, Texas, United States

One Source Networks, Inc. is a provider of global data, Internet, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking and managed communication services to Fortune 1000 companies.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-01-29 Inmar

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Inmar operates intelligent commerce networks, connecting offline and online transactions in real time for retailers, manufacturers and trading partners across multiple industries. In addition, Inmar’s platforms generate meaningful data and enable the Company to provide clients with actionable analytics and insights to meet the evolving needs of shoppers, patients and businesses. Inmar was founded in 1980 and is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Buy -