M&A Deal Summary

Nordic Capital Acquires Resman Energy Technology

On March 26, 2015, private equity firm Nordic Capital acquired business services company Resman Energy Technology from Verdane

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Nordic Capital’s 4th transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is Nordic Capital’s 8th transaction in Norway.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-03-26
Target Resman Energy Technology
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) Nordic Capital
Sellers(s) Verdane
Deal Type Secondary Buyout

Target

Resman Energy Technology

Ranheim, Norway
Resman Energy Technology is a provider of wireless reservoir surveillance within the oil and gas industry. The company provides a risk-free means to attain quantified inflow monitoring of oil producing zones with its proprietary and patented interpretation models and in-house simulation software. Resman Energy Technology was founded in 2005 and is based in Ranheim, Norway.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Nordic Capital

Stockholm, Sweden

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1989
PE ASSETS 31.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Nordic Capital is a private equity investment firm that targets mid to large-sized company investments located in Northern Europe as well as the US. Nordic seeks investments across a wide range of industries and prefers situations where there are 'opportunities for new industrial combinations, strategic repositioning, international expansion and operational improvements'. Nordic Capital was formed in 1989 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 81 of 140
Sector: Business Services M&A 4 of 6
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 18 of 45
Country: Norway M&A 8 of 12
Year: 2015 M&A 2 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-01-13 Unisport

Copenhagen, Denmark

Unisport is an e-commerce football company. Unisport has a market major e-commerce platform and is dedicated to football obsessed consumers, connecting to these via its award-winning e-commerce platform and in-house produced football related content which has obtained huge followership on social media. Unisport was founded in 1995 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-06-10 Europris AS

Fredrikstad, Norway

Europris AS is the hard discount retail and wholesale company in Norway, with emphasis on both food and non-food products.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Verdane

Oslo, Norway

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1985
PE ASSETS 1.2B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Verdane is a Norwegian private investment focused on acquiring portfolios of investments. In addition to secondary investing, Verdane also invests in co-investment pools as well as makes direct investments in individual growth companies. Sectors of interest include consumer products/services, software, energy, technology, and communications. Verdane provides support to portfolio owners to reduce exposure to private equity risk, achieve liquidity and free owners from the burden of managing direct investments. The majority of Verdane's investments are growth stage, however, the Firm can invest at any stage of development. Verdane was formerly known as Four Seasons Venture AS and was established in 1985. Verdane is based in Oslo, with additional offices in Helsinki and Stockholm.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 27 of 48
Sector: Business Services M&A 2 of 3
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 3 of 7
Country: Norway M&A 10 of 15
Year: 2015 M&A 2 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-01-08 CRF Health

London, United Kingdom

CRF Health is a provider of patient-centered eSource technology solutions for the life sciences industry. With experience in more than 800 clinical trials, over 100 languages and across 74 countries, CRF Health’s TrialMax® platform consistently demonstrates the industry’s highest data accuracy, patient and site compliance, and patient retention. The integrated TrialMax platform includes eCOA solutions for collecting PROs (Patient Reported Outcomes), ObsROs (Observer Reported Outcomes), ClinROs (Clinician or Rater Reported Outcomes), and PerfOs (Performance Outcomes), and features TrialConsent®, an electronic solution for collecting and managing informed consent in clinical trials. CRF Health’s eSource solutions improve trial engagement by making the patient the center of the clinical trial process.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-04-06 Octoshape Aps

Copenhagen, Denmark

Octoshape Aps offers services to help optimize the quality of video streams for over-the-top (OTT) content and to enable Internet Protocol television (IPTV) solutions.

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