M&A Deal Summary

IHS Acquires Centennial Towers

On April 12, 2021, IHS acquired communications company Centennial Towers from Madison Dearborn Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is IHS’s 4th transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is IHS’s 3rd transaction in Brazil.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2021-04-12
Target Centennial Towers
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) IHS
Sellers(s) Madison Dearborn Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Centennial Towers

Sao Paulo, Brazil
Centennial Towers is a developer, owner, and operator of wireless communications towers in Latin America. Centennial Towers is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

IHS

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 2001
Sector Communications
Employees2,864
Revenue 1.7B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

IHS is an independent owner, operator, and developer of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world. IHS provides mission-critical telecommunications infrastructure to customers, most of whom are leading MNOs, who in turn provide wireless voice and data services to their end-users. IHS was founded in 2001 and is based in London, England.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 5
Sector: Communications M&A 4 of 5
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 4
Country: Brazil M&A 3 of 4
Year: 2021 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-01-07 SKYSITES Americas

São Paulo, Brazil

SKYSITES Americas Ltda is a specialist provider of small cells and urban telecommunications infrastructure in Brazil. Skysites’ operations, which comprise approximately 1,000 sites, along with exclusive access to tens of thousands of premium real estate locations in urban settings.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-01-24 SP5

São Paulo, Brazil

SP5 comprises 2,115 towers that represents the culmination of strategy to create an important infrastructure business focusing on historically underserved regions of Brazil.

Buy $315M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Madison Dearborn Partners

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 31.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) is a large private equity firm that targets buyouts of private or publicly held companies, divestitures of larger companies, recapitalizations of family-owned or closely-held companies, acquisition-oriented financings, and financings to fund internal growth. MDP's target investment size is $100 to $600 million in buyout oriented transactions and $100 to $400 million in growth capital commitments. Areas of interest include basic industries (natural resources, chemicals, energy and power, automotive, building products, food, metals and mining, refining, paper, packaging and forest products, and general manufacturing), as well as communications, consumer products/services, financial services, and healthcare. Madison Dearborn Partners was formed in 1992 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 66 of 79
Sector: Communications M&A 11 of 11
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 29 of 37
Country: Brazil M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2021 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-12-21 Specialty Building Products

Duluth, Georgia, United States

Specialty Building Products is a distributor of specialty residential building products and provider of critical logistics solutions for the complex building products supply chain. SBP has entrenched market positions across high-growth product categories including exterior siding and trim, composite decking and railing, moulding and millwork, interior finish and engineered wood. Specialty Building Products is based in Duluth, Georgia.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-04-19 Align Precision

Tempe, Arizona, United States

Align Precision is a producer of precision-machined components for manufacturers in the aerospace and defense, transformative technologies, and industrial markets. Align Precision pursues a customer-centric growth strategy focused on investing in its capabilities, capacity, and people to provide best-in-class service to customers in its specific end markets. Align Precision was founded in 2011 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.

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