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Gaja Capital Acquires Career Launcher

On November 16, 2007, private equity firm Gaja Capital acquired education company Career Launcher

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Gaja Capital’s 3rd transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is Gaja Capital’s 5th transaction in India.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2007-11-16
Target Career Launcher
Sector Education
Buyer(s) Gaja Capital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Career Launcher

Delhi, India
Career Launcher is a provider of education service and is led by a team of IIT-IIM alumni, who share a passion for education. Career Launcher provides test preparatory and vocational training services to over 60,000 students across 130 locations in India . Career Launcher was founded in 1995 and is based in Delhi, India.

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Buyer

Gaja Capital

Mumbai, India

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2004
Size Small
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Gaja Capital Partners is an independent private equity firm focused on mid-market investment opportunities in India. Gaja looks to act as a minority investor in buy-outs, turnarounds and pre-IPO situations, with a general strategy of using investment capital to fund growth. The firms invests in the range up to $1 billion per transaction. Gaja is a generalist firm that will consider investments across many sectors inclding education, financial Services, IT, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. Gaja Capital Partners was formed in 2004 and is located in Mumbai.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 21
Sector: Education M&A 3 of 5
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 3 of 8
Country: India M&A 5 of 20
Year: 2007 M&A 4 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-09-01 Bumi Geo Engineering Pvt.

New Delhi, India

Bumi is a specialist Geo Engineering company serving the infrastructure sector.Bumi currently operates in India, Singapore, and the Middle-East. Within India it currently serves the Power and Urban Infrastructure sub sectors. Its projects involve several hydro-electric power plants and urban projects including the Delhi Metro. Bumi is one of very few specialist infra companies with a track record of executing complex projects in challenging terrains.Bumi was founded in 2002 by Mr. B. Jaikumar who has experience in Geotechnical Engineering in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai and India.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-07-26 Haldia Coke & Chemicals

Chennai, India

Haldia Coke is manufactures met-coke, which is a key input used in the manufacturing of steel, ferro alloys and soda ash. Haldia Coke was founded in 2004 and is based in Chennai, India.

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