Investment Summary |
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|---|---|
| Date | 2014-12-09 |
| Target | IDX |
| Sector | Marketing |
| Investor(s) | ECI Partners |
| Sellers(s) | Gresham |
| Deal Type | Secondary Buyout |
| Deal Value | 50M GBP |
| Advisor(s) | Clarity Capital (Financial) Osborne Clarke (Legal) |
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| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1976 |
| PE ASSETS | 2.0B GBP |
| Size | Large |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
ECI Partners is a private equity firm focused on the smaller middle-market company that invests in growing businesses valued up to £300m. ECI looks for UK businesses or businesses with a substantial presence in the UK. Funds are generally used to support expansion, acquisitions, management buyouts, buy-ins, turnarounds, and refinancing. Target sectors include IT services, support services, Insurance, and SME services. ECI will not invest in early-stage companies. ECI Partners was formed in 1976 and has offices in London, Manchester, and New York.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 51 of 78 |
| Sector: Marketing M&A | 2 of 3 |
| Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals | 8 of 21 |
| Country: United Kingdom M&A | 47 of 73 |
| Year: 2014 M&A | 3 of 3 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 8 of 12 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-30 |
XLN Telecom
London, United Kingdom XLN Telecom is a communications company based in London. It supplies fixed line and broadband services to 70,000 customers in the SME sector and is one of Britain’s fastest growing alternative telecoms service providers. |
Sell | £100M |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-10 |
Wireless Logic Group
Berkshire, United Kingdom Wireless Logic Group is a machine-to-machine (M2M) managed services provider combining infrastructure, platforms and connectivity. Wireless Logic Group was founded in 2000 and is based in Berkshire, United Kingdom. |
Sell | - |
Gresham LLP is a private equity firm focused on management buyouts across a broad range of industries in the UK. Gresham considers transactions up to GBP100 million with an emphasis on opportunities in business services, support services, consumer products and services, financial services, healthcare/pharmaceuticals, industrial products and energy/environmental. Gresham is based in London with additional offices in Birmingham and Manchester.
| DEAL STATS | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 25 of 27 |
| Sector: Marketing M&A | 1 of 1 |
| Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals | 13 of 13 |
| Country: United Kingdom M&A | 25 of 27 |
| Year: 2014 M&A | 8 of 9 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 8 of 11 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-14 |
YM&U
London, United Kingdom YM&U is an integrated provider of talent representation and management services for the entertainment, music, sports and scripted industries in the U.K. and U.S., the company acts as talent agent and manager for c. 1,000 clients and offers professional services (accounting, legal and business management) to an additional c. 1,100 clients. YM&U was founded in 1984 and is based in London, United Kingdom. |
Sell | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-15 |
R P Martin
London, United Kingdom R P Martin Limited is the holding company for Martin Brokers (MB) and Trio Equity Derivatives (TED) the two principal trading entities within the Group (Martins). Established more than 100 years ago Martins is the oldest money broking company in the world. |
Sell | - |
