Investment Summary

Madison Dearborn Partners Invests In Liquid Web

On May 27, 2015, private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners invested in internet software and services company Liquid Web

Investment Highlights
  • This is Madison Dearborn Partners’ 3rd transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Madison Dearborn Partners’ 57th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Madison Dearborn Partners’ 2nd transaction in Michigan.
Investment Fate
  • Liquid Web was sold to a strategic buyer in 2023.

Investment Summary
Date 2015-05-27
Target Liquid Web
Sector Internet Software and Services
Investor(s) Madison Dearborn Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Liquid Web

Lansing, Michigan, United States
Liquid Web provides complex web hosting and managed cloud services to more than 30,000 customers worldwide across five high-performance data centers in the U.S. and in Amsterdam. The company is known for its premier Heroic Support platform, which delivers highly technical customer support across its server and hosting products. Liquid Web was founded in 1997 and is based in Lansing, Michigan.

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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 65 of 99
Sector (Internet Software and Services) 3 of 6
Type (Growth Capital) 6 of 10
State (Michigan) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 57 of 85
Year (2015) 2 of 3
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Irvine, California, United States

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