Investment Summary

HgCapital Invests In BrightPay

On September 11, 2018, private equity firm HgCapital invested in software company BrightPay

Investment Highlights
  • This is HgCapital’s 28th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is HgCapital’s 4th transaction in Ireland.

Investment Summary

Date 2018-09-11
Target BrightPay
Sector Software
Investor(s) HgCapital
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

BrightPay

Duleek, Ireland
BrightPay provides easy-to-use and cutting-edge software solutions to enable SMEs to manage payroll, supported by excellent customer service. BrightPay is based in Duleek, Ireland.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

HgCapital

London, United Kingdom

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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 105 of 153
Sector: Software M&A 28 of 48
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 15 of 28
Country: Ireland M&A 4 of 5
Year: 2018 M&A 9 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-09-01 Athletic Sport Sponsoring

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Athletic Sport Sponsoring is a flat-rate car subscription provider to members of closed user groups. Athletic Sport Sponsoring was founded in 1997 and is based in Bochum, Germany.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-10-01 Lumesse

Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Lumesse Ltd. is a provider of strategic HR software (e-recruiting and talent management) to 1,700 medium and large enterprises in Europe, the US and Asia-Pacific, operating in 17 countries. Lumesse Ltd. was founded in 1999 and is based in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

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