M&A Deal Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2017-05-03 |
| Target | SmartBear |
| Sector | Software |
| Buyer(s) |
Francisco Partners
Vista Equity Partners |
| Deal Type | Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) |
| Advisor(s) | Evercore Group Shea & Company (Financial) Willkie Farr & Gallagher Paul Hastings (Legal) |
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| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 |
| PE ASSETS | 45.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Focused |
Francisco Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services. Specific areas of interest include semiconductors, capital equipment, electronics components, systems and manufacturing, IT services and business process outsourcing, communications, security and enterprise applications, and infrastructure software. Prospective investment situations include divisional buyouts, growth equity financings, acquisitions of private companies, sponsored mergers and acquisitions, and take-privates. Francisco Partners looks for opportunities where it can commit a minimum of $100 million per investment. Francisco Partners was formed in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 83 of 149 |
| Sector (Software) | 32 of 50 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 22 of 27 |
| State (Massachusetts) | 4 of 9 |
| Country (United States) | 68 of 124 |
| Year (2017) | 3 of 10 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-25 |
Paymetric
Roswell, Georgia, United States Paymetric, Inc. is a provider of SaaS-based enterprise security and integrated payment acceptance solutions. Paymetric automates B2B payment workflows within enterprise systems, including SAP, Oracle, Hybris, Salesforce and more. Paymetric also tokenizes payments data within these systems in order to enable secure storage of customer information and history. |
Sell | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-28 |
Zego
San Diego, California, United States Zego is a payments technology and resident engagement platform for the residential real estate industry that unifies critical resident touchpoints into one app. The Company’s mobile-first platform delivers portfolio-wide efficiency, higher NOI and more engaged residents by seamlessly integrating payment, billing and utility expense management capabilities with a proprietary resident engagement and communication portal. Zego also provides smart home device functionality. Zego serves 6,000 residential real estate companies and over 12 million units nationwide. Zego was founded in 2003 and is based in San Diego, California. |
Sell | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| PE ASSETS | 100.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Focused |
Vista Equity Partners is a mega-sized asset management firm focused on private equity, public equity, credit, and other strategies. The Firm's private equity group looks to invest in and acquire software and technology enabled services companies. Specific areas of interest include software, software-as-a-service (SaaS), technology-enabled business services, and technology-enabled information services. Vista can commit up to $700 million per transaction and will consider a variety transaction situations, including management/leveraged buyouts, growth or acquisition financings, recapitalizations or restructurings, spinouts, and take privates. Vista Equity Partners was formed in 2000 and is based in Austin, Texas.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 74 of 149 |
| Sector (Software) | 29 of 59 |
| Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) | 18 of 28 |
| State (Massachusetts) | 4 of 17 |
| Country (United States) | 67 of 137 |
| Year (2017) | 2 of 15 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-04-17 |
Numerator
Chicago, Illinois, United States Numerator is a market intelligence firm that brings together omnichannel marketing, merchandising and sales data to make pursuing new possibilities simple for brand, retail and agency clients. Numerator is the only company in the marketplace to connect omnichannel purchase data and comprehensive path data to deliver an unmatched view of the consumer shopping and purchase experience. The Company serves over 2,000 customers across a wide variety of market intelligence categories. Numerator was formed in 1990 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. |
Buy | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-16 |
Zapproved
Portland, Oregon, United States Zapproved is a provider of developing cloud‐based software for corporate legal departments. The Z-Discovery Platform returns power to in‐house corporate legal teams and helps them navigate electronic discovery with minimal risk and cost, and it sets new standards for scalability and intuitive design. Zapproved was founded in 2008 and is based in Portland, Oregon. |
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