M&A Deal Summary

KKR Acquires Unzer

On August 4, 2019, private equity firm KKR acquired financial services company Unzer from AnaCap

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is KKR’s 16th transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is KKR’s 19th transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2019-08-04
Target Unzer
Sector Financial Services
Buyer(s) KKR
Sellers(s) AnaCap
Deal Type Secondary Buyout

Target

Unzer

Heidelberg, Germany
Unzer is a full-service PSP that facilitates payment acceptance on behalf of online merchants. The platform is 100% proprietary, serving more than 14,500 primarily online businesses across the DACH and Benelux regions, and processes transactions across more than 200 payment methods, covering online, mobile and point-of-sale channels. Unzer was founded in 2003 and is based in Heidelberg, Germany.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

KKR

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1976
PE ASSETS 267.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
KKR's office in Menlo Park, California.
KKR's office in Menlo Park, California.

KKR is a global investment firm founded by Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts. The Firm is separated into several business segments including private markets, public markets, capital markets, and other principal activities. KKR's private equity practice invests in management buyouts, take privates, corporate divestitures, industry consolidations, and partnerships with family-owned companies. KKR will invest in a broad range of industries and companies and will consider businesses throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. Sectors of interest include chemicals, consumer products, energy and natural resources, financial services, healthcare, industrial, media/communications, retail, and technology. In addition to its traditional principal investment activity business, KKR also invests in infrastructure assets. KKR was formed in 1976 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 316 of 499
Sector: Financial Services M&A 16 of 22
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 63 of 113
Country: Germany M&A 19 of 25
Year: 2019 M&A 20 of 33
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-08-02 Arnott’s

North Strathfield, Australia

Arnott's is a portfolio of snack and meal brands comprising Australian biscuit brand Arnott's and Campbell Soup brands in the Asia Pacific region. Arnott’s is based in North Strathfield, Australia.

Buy $2.2B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-08-07 dataX

Tokyo, Japan

dataX offers a solution called ‘b-dash’, an integrated data-driven marketing SaaS platform. dataX was founded in 2010 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

AnaCap

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2005
PE ASSETS 2.7B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

AnaCap Financial Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused on credit and direct investments in the financial services sector. AnaCap will consider opportunities throughout Europe and looks to partner with to build scalable and efficient businesses. Areas of interest include mortgage products, small-medium sized enterprise loans, insurance, factoring, healthcare receivables, debt collections, consumer credit, auto loans, and asset management. The Firm will consider funding both start-ups as well as existing businesses. AnaCap Financial Partners was formed in 2005 and is headquartered in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 9 of 15
Sector: Financial Services M&A 6 of 8
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 3 of 4
Country: Germany M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2019 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-07-15 Ellisphere

Puteaux, France

Ellisphere is a provider of a comprehensive range of business and marketing information services, which allow its clients to develop their portfolio of customers, manage risk and monitor client exposure. Ellisphere collects and processes data to provide high quality, tailored solutions to support clients’ decision-making processes. Ellisphere was founded in 2014 and is based in Puteaux, France.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-02-12 Wealthtime Select

Salisbury, United Kingdom

Wealthtime Select is a financial portfolio management platform. Wealthtime specialising in self-invested personal pensions and private client investment administration. Wealthtime Select was founded in 2006 and is based in Salisbury, United Kingdom.

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