M&A Deal Summary

HgCapital Acquires FE fundinfo

On November 26, 2018, private equity firm HgCapital acquired information technology company FE fundinfo

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is HgCapital’s 6th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is HgCapital’s 51st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2018-11-26
Target FE fundinfo
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) HgCapital
Deal Type Consolidation

Target

FE fundinfo

London, United Kingdom
FE fundinfo is a global fund data and technology leader. FE fundinfo facilitate better, more efficient investing by connecting fund managers and fund distributors and enabling them to share and act on trusted information. FE fundinfo is based in London, United Kingdom.

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HgCapital

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 70.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

HgCapital is a European private equity firm focused on a wide range of transactions including public-to-private leveraged buy-outs, management buy-ins, divestitures, and turnarounds. Broad sectors of interest include consumer and leisure, healthcare, industrials, services, technology, media, and renewable energy. The Firm will consider both majority and minority investment positions. HgCapital is the successor to Mercury Capital Partners, a former unit of Merill Lynch which was spun out by management in 2000. HgCapital has offices in London and Munich.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 106 of 152
Sector (Information Technology) 6 of 12
Type (Consolidation) 2 of 4
Country (United Kingdom) 51 of 59
Year (2018) 10 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-11-26 fundinfo

Zurich, Switzerland

fundinfo is a technology platform for fund data and documents publication and dissemination to the global fund industry. fundinfo facilitates the publication & dissemination of fund data and documents between asset managers and distributors of funds (including banks, insurance companies, financial advisers, family offices, fund platforms). With over 500 asset management clients, and a network of over 100 distribution partners across Europe and Asia, fundinfo enables over 19 million documents to be made available to the fund industry in a compliant and visible way. fundinfo was founded in 2005 and is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-12-21 Combell

Ghent, Belgium

Combell is a mass web hoster offering services from domain names, email and shared hosting to online presence, e-commerce solutions and server hosting in the cloud. Combell was founded in 1999 and is based in Ghent, Belgium.

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