Investment Summary

Oaktree Capital Management Invests In Watco

On January 8, 2019, asset manager Oaktree Capital Management invested in transportation company Watco

Investment Highlights
  • This is Oaktree Capital Management’s 3rd transaction in the Transportation sector.
  • This is Oaktree Capital Management’s 57th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Oaktree Capital Management’s 1st transaction in Kansas.

Investment Summary

Date 2019-01-08
Target Watco
Sector Transportation
Investor(s) Oaktree Capital Management
Deal Type Stake Purchase

Target

Watco

Pittsburg, Kansas, United States
Watco is a transportation company providing transportation, terminal and port, mechanical, and supply chain services for customers throughout North America and Australia. Watco’s Mechanical Service group has one of the rail car repair shop networks in North America, and Watco Supply Chain Services group provides supply chain services in the highway, intermodal, rail logistics, and international logistics. Watco was founded in 1983 and is based in Pittsburg, Kansas.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Oaktree Capital Management

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Category Asset Manager
Founded 1995
PE ASSETS 26.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Oaktree Capital Management LLP is a global alternative investment firm with a variety of investment strategies spanning corporate debt, convertible securities, distressed debt, control investing, real estate, and public investing. The Firm's control investing group is spread across several disciplines, including Global Principal, European Principal, Power, and Infrastructure. Oaktree was formed in 1995 and is based in Los Angeles.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 89 of 129
Sector: Transportation M&A 3 of 6
Type: Stake Purchase M&A Deals 6 of 8
State: Kansas M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 57 of 83
Year: 2019 M&A 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-01-01 Student Depot

Warszawa, Poland

Student Depot is a student housing developer and operator with almost 4,200 beds in operation, ca. 1,000 beds under construction or at the design phase. The company operates students houses in the largest Polish academic cities: Warsaw, Cracow, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Poznan, Lodz and Lublin. Student Depot was formed in 2014 and is based in Warszawa, Poland.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-04-08 Railpool

Munich, Germany

Railpool GmbH is a railcar leasing company. Railpool offers a full range of reliably interlinked support: from financing and insurance via preventive maintenance, vehicle upgrades and repairs through to documentation, RAILPOOL gives you genuine full service from a single source. To keep you and your goods moving reliably. Railpool GmbH was founded in 2008 and is based in Munich, Germany.

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