Investment Summary

McCarthy Capital and ABRY Partners Invest In United Real Estate

On June 1, 2015, private equity firms McCarthy Capital and ABRY Partners invested in real estate company United Real Estate

Investment Highlights
  • This is McCarthy Capital’s 2nd and ABRY Partners’ 1st transaction in the Real Estate sector.
  • This is McCarthy Capital’s 28th and ABRY Partners’ 85th transaction in the United States.
  • This is McCarthy Capital’s 3rd and ABRY Partners’ 13th transaction in Texas.

Investment Summary

Date 2015-06-01
Target United Real Estate
Sector Real Estate
Investor(s) McCarthy Capital
ABRY Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

United Real Estate

Dallas, Texas, United States
United Real Estate operating the United Country Real Estate and United Real Estate brands, is the leading fully integrated network of conventional and auction real estate professionals globally. The two brands combined address the unique markets they serve, rural and urban, with exclusive marketing, technology, and training solutions. Together the United brands support nearly 600 offices and 5,000 real estate professionals across four continents with a unique, comprehensive marketing program that includes one of the largest portfolios of real estate websites, the largest internal real estate marketing services company, an extensive buyer database of more than 550,000 opt-in buyers, and regional, national and international advertising programs for properties. United Real Estate was founded in 2011 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

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Investor

McCarthy Capital

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1986
PE ASSETS 4.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

McCarthy Capital is a private equity firm that seeks to invest in mid-to-late-stage companies. The firm looks for companies with revenue of at least $10 million and $3 million in operating profits. McCarthy will consider companies across a broad range of industries possessing significant growth opportunities through participation in growing markets, market share expansion, industry consolidation or innovative business strategies. McCarthy prefers to invest in the range of $5 and $125 million, and will take a minority or majority ownership stake in companies where management has material capital at risk. McCarthy Capital was founded in 1986 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 28 of 53
Sector: Real Estate M&A 2 of 2
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 12 of 30
State: Texas M&A 3 of 4
Country: United States M&A 28 of 52
Year: 2015 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-02-03 AmeriSphere Multifamily Finance

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

AmeriSphere Multifamily Finance is a mortgage banking company engaged in originating, underwriting, closing and servicing high-quality multifamily and health care mortgage loans throughout the United States. AmeriSphere Multifamily Finance was formed in 2000 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-06-11 Bearence Management Group

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Bearence Management Group is an insurance brokerage and financial services firm engaged in the sale and distribution of property and casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investments and risk management products and services.

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Investor

ABRY Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1989
PE ASSETS 12.8B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

ABRY Partners is a media and communications focused private equity investment firm. Specific areas of interest include television, publishing, convention/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitoring services, telephone companies, communications towers, music libraries, database providers, wireless communications, and in-store advertisers. ABRY can provide both equity and mezzanine capital, typically committing $20 to $200 million of equity or $15 to $50 million of mezzanine capital per transaction. Prospective transaction situations include buyouts, expansion financings, platform acquisitions, consolidations, and recapitalizations. ABRY Partners was formed in 1989 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 97 of 175
Sector: Real Estate M&A 1 of 1
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 15 of 48
State: Texas M&A 13 of 18
Country: United States M&A 85 of 145
Year: 2015 M&A 4 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-05-26 Sentry

Deerfield Beach, Florida, United States

Sentry is a provider of SaaS solutions that simplify the complexity of pharmacy procurement, utilization, and 340B compliance. The company serves over 600 US hospitals, and more than 10,000 clinics and retail pharmacies across all the major pharmacy brands as well as local community pharmacies and clinics. It is involved in turning real-time data into real-world evidence through Comparative Rapid Cycle Analytics, intended to reduce total cost of care, improve care quality and operational efficiency intended to provide better outcomes for all. Sentry was formed in 2003 and is based in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-06-23 e-shelter facility services

Frankfurt, Germany

e-shelter plans, develops and operates high-availability data centers whose infrastructures provide the highest level of physical security and operational reliability. At its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, e-shelter has created Europe's single largest campus for resilient operating environments which is protected through multi-level security systems and a dedicated on-site service and control center. In addition to two locations in Frankfurt e-shelter offers high-availability datacenter space at five other locations: in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich as well as in London and Zurich.

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