M&A Deal Summary

IHS Acquires HTN Towers

On June 10, 2016, IHS acquired communications company HTN Towers from Helios Investment Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is IHS’s 1st transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is IHS’s 1st transaction in Nigeria.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-06-10
Target HTN Towers
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) IHS
Sellers(s) Helios Investment Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

HTN Towers

Lagos, Nigeria
HTN Towers is an independent African tower operator having a diversified tower sites portfolio in urban and sub urban-centric.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

IHS

London, United Kingdom
Category Company
Founded 2001
Sector Communications
Employees2,988
Revenue 2.1B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

IHS is one of the largest independent owners, operators, and developers of shared telecommunications infrastructure in the world. IHS provides mission-critical telecommunications infrastructure to customers, most of who 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, United Kingdom.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 4
Sector (Communications) 1 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 1 of 3
Country (Nigeria) 1 of 1
Year (2016) 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-12-23 Cessão De Infraestruturas S.A.

São Paulo, Brazil

Cessão De Infraestruturas S.A. (Cell Site Solutions) specializes in providing infrastructure solutions for wireless telecommunications networks and broadcast companies. Using innovative and leading-edge technology, CSS lease equipment that has built or purchased to operators across Brazil.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Helios Investment Partners

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2004
PE ASSETS 3.6B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Helios Investment Partners is a pan-African private equity firm. Helios looks to commit $15 to $200 million per transaction and will consider a broad range of investment situations. These include leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, joint ventures, seed-stage venture capital, restructurings, and strategic public equity investments. Helios is a generalist investor however the firm has particular interest in communications, financial services, power, travel/leisure, distribution/logistics, and agriculture. Helios was formed in 2004 and is based in London.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 11
Sector (Communications) 1 of 2
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 3
Country (Nigeria) 2 of 3
Year (2016) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-06-10 Telkom Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Telkom Kenya Ltd is a provider Integrated telecommunications services.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-12-01 Axxela

Lagos, Nigeria

Axxela was a pioneer developer of Nigeria’s foremost natural gas distribution network and has grown to become the largest private sector gas distributor in Nigeria.

Buy -
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