M&A Deal Summary

Northgate Capital Acquires Elara

On August 12, 2015, private equity firm Northgate Capital acquired communications company Elara

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Northgate Capital’s 3rd transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Northgate Capital’s 1st transaction in Mexico.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-08-12
Target Elara
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Northgate Capital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Elara

Ciudad de México, Mexico
Elara is a provider of satellite telecommunication and technology services in Mexico and Latin America. Elara is based in Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.

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Buyer

Northgate Capital

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 4.8B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Northgate Capital is a private investment firm focused on venture and private equity investing. The Firm's venture group will consider opportunities globally looks to make direct investments in rapidly growing companies as well as invest in venture funds. Northgate's private equity group looks to provide provide equity and mezzanine capital to growth oriented small and middle-market companies operating in Mexico. Northgate Capital was formed in 2000 and is based in San Francisco, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 19 of 23
Sector: Communications M&A 3 of 3
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 1 of 2
Country: Mexico M&A 1 of 5
Year: 2015 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-05-12 Blue Danube

Santa Clara, California, United States

Blue Danube designs next generation wireless solutions for mobile networks and other applications. Its Coherent Massive MIMO solution brings 5G beamforming to today’s networks, dramatically increasing network capacity and end user experience. Together with a cloud-based software suite utilizing machine learning techniques, our technology enables up to a 10X capacity increase in cellular networks. Blue Danube is based in Santa Clara, CA and New Providence, NJ.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-02-12 BandPage

San Francisco, California, United States

BandPage, Inc. is an online platform for musicians to share music, videos, photos and touring schedules.

Sell $8M