M&A Deal Summary

NovaLead Pharma Acquires VLife Sciences Technologies

On October 1, 2013, NovaLead Pharma acquired software company VLife Sciences Technologies from Kotak Private Equity Group

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is NovaLead Pharma’s 1st transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is NovaLead Pharma’s 1st transaction in India.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-10-01
Target VLife Sciences Technologies
Sector Software
Buyer(s) NovaLead Pharma
Sellers(s) Kotak Private Equity Group
Deal Type Merger

Target

VLife Sciences Technologies

Pune, India
VLife Sciences Technologies is a provider of licensed software and research solutions for discovery research projects in a variety of sectors. The software offers numerous unique and specialized features for applications in computer aided molecular discovery, bioinformatics, biotechnology and chemoinformatics. VLife Sciences Technologies was founded in 2002 and is based in Pune, Maharashtra.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

NovaLead Pharma

Pune, India

Category Company
Founded 2007
Sector Life Science
DESCRIPTION

NovaLead Pharma is a drug discovery and development company focused on finding new indications for generic drugs. Enabled by proprietary technology platform, NovaLead follows a differenciated research approach of finding new targets for generic drugs thereby creating new indication opportunity. NovaLead Pharma was founded in 2007 and is based in Pune, Maharashtra.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 1
Type: Merger M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: India M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Kotak Private Equity Group

Mumbai, India

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2005
PE ASSETS 1.4B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Kotak Private Equity Group (KPEG) is the private equity investment arm of financial services firm, Kotak Mahindra Group. KPEG looks to invest $20 to $40 million in a variety of mid-sized Indian companies to support expansion, acquisitions, or buyouts KPEG targets businesses with strong management and growth potential operating in fragmented industries. Sectors of interest include life science, retail, media/entertainment, light manufacturing, agriculture, food processing, healthcare, distribution, and IT/software. Kotak is based in Mumbai.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 18
Sector: Software M&A 1 of 2
Type: Merger M&A Deals 1 of 2
Country: India M&A 8 of 17
Year: 2013 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-06-15 Bharat Fritz Werner

Bengaluru, India

Bharat Fritz Werner (BFW) is a manufacturer of CNC machines and machine tools in India. The company manufactures full line of CNC vertical and CNC horizontal machining centers catering to different industry segments. The company has a strong engineering base owing to its German parentage. Bharat Fritz Werner was founded in 1961 and is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-09 Four Soft

Hyderabad, India

Four Soft is a software products and solutions company offering enterprise solutions built on contemporary technologies to the transportation and logistics (T&L) industry and supply chain execution solutions to the manufacturing industry.

Sell $43M