M&A Deal Summary

JCDecaux SA Acquires Continental Outdoor Media

On June 18, 2015, JCDecaux SA acquired media company Continental Outdoor Media from Helios Investment Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is JCDecaux SA’s 3rd transaction in the Media sector.
  • This is JCDecaux SA’s 1st transaction in South Africa.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-06-18
Target Continental Outdoor Media
Sector Media
Buyer(s) JCDecaux SA
Sellers(s) Helios Investment Partners
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Continental Outdoor Media

Bryanston, South Africa
Continental Outdoor Media is Africa’s largest outdoor advertising company.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

JCDecaux SA

Plaisir, France

Category Company
Founded 1964
Sector Media
Employees11,900
Revenue 2.5B EUR (2014)
DESCRIPTION

JCDecaux SA provides outdoor advertising services.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 10
Sector: Media M&A 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 10
Country: South Africa M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-03-17 CEMUSA-Corporación Europea de Mobiliario Urbano S.A.

Madrid, Spain

CEMUSA-Corporación Europea de Mobiliario Urbano, S.A. provides outdoor advertising.

Buy €80M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-06-26 APN Outdoor Group

Pyrmont, Australia

APN Outdoor Group Ltd. is a provider of outdoor advertising services across Australia and New Zealand.

Buy AU$1.1B

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 3 of 11
Sector: Media M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 3
Country: South Africa M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-05-05 Meren Energy

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Meren Energy is an oil and gas exploration and production company. The company holds interests in producing and development assets in deep-water Nigeria. It also has a portfolio of development and exploration assets in west and south of Africa. Meren Energy was founded in 1983 and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-08-01 Equity Bank

Nairobi, Kenya

Equity Bank focuses on providing banking services to the un-banked population. The successful execution of that strategy has enabled Equity Bank to build Kenya's largest base of account holders and industry-leading growth rates and profitability.

Sell -