M&A Deal Summary

Great Hill Partners Acquires ZoomInfo

On August 14, 2017, private equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired information services company ZoomInfo for 240M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Great Hill Partners’ 1st transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is Great Hill Partners’ largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Great Hill Partners’ 57th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Great Hill Partners’ 7th transaction in Massachusetts.
Investment Fate
  • ZoomInfo was sold to a strategic buyer in 2019 for 500M USD.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2017-08-14
Target ZoomInfo
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) Great Hill Partners
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Deal Value 240M USD
Advisor(s) Lazard Ltd. (Financial)

Target

ZoomInfo

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Zoom Information, Inc. is a B2B data provider. ZoomInfo combines user behaviors, business data, and artificial intelligence to streamline sales workflow and deliver revenue results. Zoom Information, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Great Hill Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1998
PE ASSETS 12.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Great Hill Partners is a private equity firm focused on growth equity and recapitalization investments in well established public and private companies valued put to $1 billion. Great Hill targets companies within consumer services, business services, financial technology, healthcare, internet, logistics, media, communications, technology services, software and transaction processing. The Firm invests in the range of $25 to $500 million per transaction. Great Hill prefers companies located in the US, but will also consider opportunities in Europe and Latin America. Great Hill Partners was formed in 1998 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 66 of 97
Sector (Information Services) 1 of 1
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 21 of 25
State (Massachusetts) 7 of 10
Country (United States) 57 of 81
Year (2017) 6 of 8
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-08-03 Sugarfina

Los Angeles, California, United States

Sugarfina, Inc. is a luxury candy boutique featuring 150+ gourmet sweets from small artisan candy-makers around the world. Sugarfina launched online in the summer of 2012 and has since grown to 24 boutiques and 14 shop-in-shops in North America. The brand focuses on creating the highest-quality confections in partnership with artisan candy makers around the globe. More than three-quarters of Sugarfina candies are exclusive and can’t be found at any other candy store.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-09-07 NMI

Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

NMI provides payments enablement technology that empowers ISOs, ISVs, VARs and payment facilitators to offer branded payment gateway services without building or maintaining their own technology. NMI enables critical payment functionality to affiliates and merchants with its white-labeled, security-focused, feature-rich, omni-channel platform. NMI was formed in 2001 and is based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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