Investment Summary

Madison Dearborn Partners Invests In Ankura

On March 3, 2016, private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners invested in business services company Ankura

Investment Highlights
  • This is Madison Dearborn Partners’ 2nd transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Madison Dearborn Partners’ 59th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Madison Dearborn Partners’ 6th transaction in Texas.

Investment Summary
Date 2016-03-03
Target Ankura
Sector Business Services
Investor(s) Madison Dearborn Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital
Advisor(s) RBC Capital Markets (Financial)
Cole Schotz (Legal)

Target

Ankura

Dallas, Texas, United States
Ankura is a business advisory and expert services firm. Its deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges clients face enables its team to provide impactful, senior-level counsel. As an independent firm built on five key principles – Integrity, Quality, Diversity, Collaboration and Longevity – Ankura’s relationships extend beyond one engagement or issue. The firm empowers its industry experts to provide a high-touch, unique approach for its clients in critical times. Ankura’s offering includes a wide range of expert witness, turnaround and restructuring, corporate investigation, disputes/litigation support, forensic accounting, geopolitical risk assessment, transaction advisory, valuation, visual communications and business advisory services.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Madison Dearborn Partners

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 28.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) is a large private equity firm that targets buyouts of private or publicly held companies, divestitures of larger companies, recapitalizations of family-owned or closely-held companies, acquisition-oriented financings, and financings to fund internal growth. MDP's target investment size is $100 to $600 million in buyout oriented transactions and $100 to $400 million in growth capital commitments. Areas of interest include basic industries (natural resources, chemicals, energy and power, automotive, building products, food, metals and mining, refining, paper, packaging and forest products, and general manufacturing), as well as communications, consumer products/services, financial services, and healthcare. Madison Dearborn Partners was formed in 1992 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 67 of 99
Sector (Business Services) 2 of 3
Type (Growth Capital) 7 of 10
State (Texas) 6 of 10
Country (United States) 59 of 85
Year (2016) 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-02-01 Sage Products

Cary, Illinois, United States

Sage Products is a provider of infection control and preventative care products to healthcare facilities worldwide.

Sell $2.8B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-05-16 Quickplay Media

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Quickplay Media Co. is a cloud-based mobile video platform that allows pay-TV operators, wireless carriers, and content providers to outsource the collection, storage, manipulation, and delivery of audio and video content to IP-connected devices such as smartphones and tablets. QuickPlay was formed in 2004 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

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