M&A Deal Summary

GMT Communications Partners Acquires Bigpoint

On August 1, 2008, private equity firm GMT Communications Partners acquired digital media company Bigpoint

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is GMT Communications Partners’ 1st transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is GMT Communications Partners’ 3rd transaction in Germany.
Investment Fate
  • Bigpoint was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2011 for 350M USD.
  • Bigpoint was sold to a strategic buyer in 2016.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2008-08-01
Target Bigpoint
Sector Digital Media
Buyer(s) GMT Communications Partners
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Bigpoint

Hamburg, Germany
Bigpoint GmbH is a publisher and developer of online games. Bigpoint.com is a gaming portal that offers a wide variety of high-quality online games.

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Buyer

GMT Communications Partners

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1993
PE ASSETS 3.5B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

GMT Communications Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused on investments in the media and communications industries. The Firm prefers established companies with strong barriers to entry. Specific sectors of interest include publishing, information services, tv/radio, mobile voice & data networks, out-of-home media, and telecom infrastructure/services. GMT focuses its investment activity across Europe and will consider later stage investments as well as buyouts. GMT Communications Partners is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 26 of 30
Sector: Digital Media M&A 1 of 1
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 23 of 24
Country: Germany M&A 3 of 3
Year: 2008 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-05-01 Enento Group

Helsinki, Finland

Enento Group provides digital business and consumer information services in the Nordic countries. The company's products and services are primarily used for risk management, finance, administration, and decision-making, as well as sales and marketing purposes. Enento Group was incorporated in 1905 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-08-12 Pepcom

Unterfohring, Germany

Pepcom GmbH is a cable TV operator, with more than 630,000 subscribers of video, broadband and voice services.

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