M&A Deal Summary

Permira Acquires Grobest

On November 12, 2018, private equity firm Permira acquired food company Grobest

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Permira’s 4th transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is Permira’s 1st transaction in Taiwan.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2018-11-12
Target Grobest
Sector Food
Buyer(s) Permira
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)

Target

Grobest

Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
Grobest is an independent and most advanced producer of aquatic feed for shrimp and high-value fish in Asia and a global pioneer in differentiated functional feed products for high-value warm water species. Grobest was founded in 1974 and is based in Tao-Yuan, Taiwan.

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Buyer

Permira

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1985
PE ASSETS 80.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Permira is a mega-sized private equity firm that targets large company investments around the world. Permira invests to support acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, take-privates, turnarounds, and growth buyouts. Areas of interest include healthcare, financial services, chemicals, consumer products and services, industrial products and services, technology, media, and telecom. Permira will consider opportunities in Europe, Asia, and North America. Permira was formed in 1985 and has offices in Menlo Park, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, London, Hong Kong, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo, Guernsey and New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 123 of 171
Sector: Food M&A 4 of 5
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 50 of 55
Country: Taiwan M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2018 M&A 9 of 12
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-10-12 AllTrails

San Francisco, California, United States

AllTrails is a digital guide to the outdoors. AllTrails helps people explore the outdoors with the largest collection of detailed, hand-curated trail maps as well as trail reviews and photos crowdsourced from its community of over 9 million hikers, mountain bikers, and trail runners. AllTrails was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-12-12 Universidad Europea

Madrid, Spain

Universidad Europea is a network of higher education offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs and an international, innovative education tailored to today's job market. Universidad Europea is based in Madrid, Spain.

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