Investment Summary

J.C. Flowers & Co. Invests In MF Global Holdings

On May 20, 2008, private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co. invested in financial services company MF Global Holdings

Investment Highlights
  • This is J.C. Flowers & Co.’s 5th transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is J.C. Flowers & Co.’s 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is J.C. Flowers & Co.’s 1st transaction in New York.
Investment Fate
  • MF Global Holdings went bankrupt in 2011.

Investment Summary

Date 2008-05-20
Target MF Global Holdings
Sector Financial Services
Investor(s) J.C. Flowers & Co.
Deal Type PIPE

Target

MF Global Holdings

New York, New York, United States
MF Global Holdings Ltd was a commodities brokerage firm.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

J.C. Flowers & Co.

New York, New York, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1998
PE ASSETS 4.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

JC Flowers is a specialist private equity firm that targets investments in the financial services sector. JC Flowers looks for distressed opportunities in North America, Western Europe, and Asia. JC Flowers was formed in 1998 and is based in New York City with an additional office in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 37
Sector: Financial Services M&A 5 of 18
Type: PIPE M&A Deals 3 of 4
State: New York M&A 1 of 2
Country: United States M&A 4 of 10
Year: 2008 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-01 UKWM

York, United Kingdom

UKWM, formerly Yorkshire Investment Group, is a company with £1.4bn of private client funds under advice in addition to the corporate pension funds on which it advises. It provides specialist investment and tax planning advice to high net worth individuals and employee benefits advice to organizations and trustees. The company is well positioned to capitalise on changes in the IFA market driven by UK demographic trends, pension reforms and regulatory changes. The IFA sector is fragmented and comprises approximately 11,000 independent firms in the UK.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-09-30 Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Founded in 1971, Fox-Pitt is a financial services provider.

Sell $130M