M&A Deal Summary

Germanischer Lloyd Prüflabor Acquires Noble Denton Consultants

On May 6, 2009, Germanischer Lloyd Prüflabor acquired business services company Noble Denton Consultants from HitecVision

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Germanischer Lloyd Prüflabor’s 1st transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Germanischer Lloyd Prüflabor’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2009-05-06
Target Noble Denton Consultants
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Germanischer Lloyd Prüflabor
Sellers(s) HitecVision
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Noble Denton Consultants

London, United Kingdom
Noble Denton is an independent consultant firm, offering an integrated range of marine and engineering consultancy services to the global shipping, insurance and offshore energy industry.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Germanischer Lloyd Prüflabor

Hamburg, Germany

Category Company
Sector Marine
DESCRIPTION

Germanischer Lloyd Prüflabor GmbH is a provider of maritime classification services for new ship building and vessels in operation.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

HitecVision

Stavanger, Norway

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1985
PE ASSETS 8.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

HitecVision is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts and growth capital investments in the oil and gas industry. The Firm targets investments in middle-market companies throughout North America (primarily US) and Northern Europe (primarily Norway and the UK). HitecVision seeks companies with growth potential and unique technologies. The Firm looks to invest €150 to €500 million in companies. Specific areas of interest include drilling/down-hole, exploration/production, field development, mid- and downstream, and subsurface. HitecVision was formed in 1985 and is based in Stavanger. The Firm has additional offices in Oslo and Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 13 of 34
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 17
Country: United Kingdom M&A 2 of 3
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-01-01 Stream AS

Stavanger, Norway

STREAM is a provider of products, solutions and services within valves, piping, electo and instrumentation for the oil and gas industry. The STREAM group consists of Solberg & Andersen AS, Teamtrade AS, and Energy Piping AS (previously Ahlsell Oil & Gas), which all represent a number of prestigious global suppliers.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-10-22 Reef Subsea UK

Surrey, United Kingdom

Reef Subsea UK Ltd. is a subsea services contractor to the Oil & Gas and Renewable Energy markets. Reef Subsea operates mainly from Northern Europe (UK, Norway), the Americas (Houston), Far East (Singapore) and Asia-Pacific (Perth). Our group of specialized companies offers a wide range of subsea services covering Subsea Construction & IRM, Installation & Trenching of cables & umbilicals, ROV and Survey Services, Seabed Dredging and Controlled Flow Excavation.

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