M&A Deal Summary

Leeds Equity Partners Acquires engage2learn

On May 12, 2021, private equity firm Leeds Equity Partners acquired education company engage2learn

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Leeds Equity Partners’ 14th transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is Leeds Equity Partners’ 28th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Leeds Equity Partners’ 4th transaction in Texas.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2021-05-12
Target engage2learn
Sector Education
Buyer(s) Leeds Equity Partners
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Advisor(s) Cowen (Financial)
Haynes and Boone (Legal)

Target

engage2learn

Austin, Texas, United States
engage2learn is a provider of professional development coaching and technology tools serving districts in the public K-12 market. Through its professional development coaching services and technology tools, engage2learn enables school districts to drive long term positive change for teachers and improved student outcomes. engage2learn was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas.

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Buyer

Leeds Equity Partners

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1993
PE ASSETS 4.8B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Leeds Equity Partners is a specialist private equity firm that targets investments in middle-market companies operating in knowledge industries. Specific areas of interest include education (K-12, postsecondary, at-risk/special education, instruction materials, testing), training (corporate training, professional certification/continuing education, language training), and information/business services (b2b publishing, information databases/research, tradeshows/conferences, business process outsourcing, consulting, staffing, marketing). Leeds prefers investing in established companies that are leaders in their respective markets. Leeds Equity Partners was formed in 1993 and is based in New York, New York.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 31 of 43
Sector: Education M&A 14 of 19
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 13 of 13
State: Texas M&A 4 of 5
Country: United States M&A 28 of 39
Year: 2021 M&A 2 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-04-30 OptionMetrics

New York, New York, United States

OptionMetrics is a provider of historical options and implied volatility data, OptionMetrics distributes its IvyDB databases, futures options, Signed Volume and Borrow Rate data to leading portfolio managers, traders, and quantitative researchers at 300+ corporate and academic institutions worldwide to construct and test investment strategies, perform empirical research, and assess risk. OptionMetrics was founded in 1999 and is based in New York, New York.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-07-20 eLuma

Lehi, Utah, United States

eLuma is a two-sided marketplace for providing live, online special education and mental health services and software to K-12 districts, schools, and their students. eLuma utilizes proprietary software to enable K-12 districts and schools and their students, on the one hand, and therapy service providers, on the other hand, to receive and deliver, respectively live, online speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, school psychology and mental health services. eLuma is based in Lehi, Utah.

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