M&A Deal Summary

Highlander Partners Acquires SanoVita

On February 19, 2020, private equity firm Highlander Partners acquired food company SanoVita

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Highlander Partners’ 9th transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is Highlander Partners’ 2nd transaction in Romania.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2020-02-19
Target SanoVita
Sector Food
Buyer(s) Highlander Partners
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Advisor(s) RTPR (Legal)

Target

SanoVita

Ramnicu Valcea, Romania
SanoVita provides snacks, cereals, rice cakes, tofu, mueslis, and nut and seed mixes. SanoVita was founded in 1995 and is based in Râmnicu Valcea, Romania.

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Buyer

Highlander Partners

Dallas, Texas, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2004
PE ASSETS 3.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Highlander Partners LP is a private equity firm focuses on making both direct private equity and mezzanine investments in companies located in US and Europe. The firm seeks to target to invest in small and mid-size private companies with strong management teams, fundamentally strong operations and positive cash flows. HP looks to invest $10 to $50 million as an equity and $10 to $25 million in mezzanine financing in companies with revenues of $10 to $500 million and enterprise value up to $100 million. Specific areas of interest include manufacturing, food, healthcare products and services, and healthcare IT, retail and building materials. Types of transaction include buyouts, growth capital, divestitures, consolidation and recapitalization. Highlander Partners LP was formed in 2004 and is based in Dallas, Texas with additional office in Warszawa, Poland.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 39 of 48
Sector (Food) 9 of 11
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 20 of 26
Country (Romania) 2 of 2
Year (2020) 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-02-04 Akomex

Starogard Gdański, Poland

Akomex Group is a manufacturer of cardboard packaging in Poland. Akomex makes high-quality solid cardboard packaging, leaflets, labels, as well as trays and laminated sheets for the pharmaceutical, food, electronics and technology, personal care, and home appliances sectors. Akomex offers multiple options of product finishing such as hot-stamping, embossing (including Braille application), oil, dispersion, and UV varnishing. Akomex specializes in various methods for packaging protection against counterfeitings, such as holograms application, microprint, twin effect and more. Akomex was founded in 1993 and is based in Starogard Gdański, Poland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-05-01 Del Monte Pacific

British Virgin Islands, United Kingdom

Del Monte Pacific engages in processing, manufacturing, and packing pineapple and tomato products. Del Monte Pacific was founded in 1886 and is based in Taguig, Phillippines.

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