M&A Deal Summary

Iron Mountain Acquires Recall Holdings

On May 2, 2016, Iron Mountain acquired information services company Recall Holdings for 2.0B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Iron Mountain’s 1st transaction in the Information Services sector.
  • This is Iron Mountain’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Iron Mountain’s 2nd transaction in Australia.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-05-02
Target Recall Holdings
Sector Information Services
Buyer(s) Iron Mountain
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 2.0B USD

Target

Recall Holdings

Alexandria, Australia
Recall Holdings Ltd. is a provider of information management solutions, offering customers complete management of its physical and digital information assets with one partner. Recall’s innovative solutions empower organizations to make better business decisions throughout the information lifecycle, while keeping regulatory compliance and eliminating unnecessary resources, time and costs.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Iron Mountain

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Category Company
Sector Business Services
Employees26,000
Revenue 5.5B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Iron Mountain is a provider of storage and information management services. The Company provides a variety of solutions for records management, data management, document management, and secure shredding to help organizations lower storage costs, comply with regulations, and recover from disaster. Iron Mountain is based in Boston, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 20 of 32
Sector (Information Services) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 17 of 25
Country (Australia) 2 of 2
Year (2016) 3 of 4
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 13
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-04-21 Docufile Pty.

Johannesburg, South Africa

Docufile Pty. Ltd. is a records management company. Docufile solutions cover the full information life cycle, from records creation to destruction, and include records management and storage; document imaging and scanning; off-site data storage and hosting; file tracking software; online data backup and restoration; secure shredding; archiving stationary; and training and consulting.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-08-02 Santa Fe - Records Management Business

Copenhagen, Denmark

Santa Fe - Records Management Business comprises 10 regions in both Europe and Asia. Santa Fe’s information management operations in Spain, India, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Taiwan. One facility in Indonesia and assume the leases for 20 facilities in the other locations,

Buy €27M