M&A Deal Summary

Permira Acquires Quotient Sciences

On July 18, 2019, private equity firm Permira acquired life science company Quotient Sciences from GHO Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Permira’s 2nd transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Permira’s 30th transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2019-07-18
Target Quotient Sciences
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Permira
Sellers(s) GHO Capital Partners
Deal Type Recapitalization

Target

Quotient Sciences

Nottingham, United Kingdom
Quotient Sciences is a provider of outsourced, early-stage drug development services to the pharmaceutical industry. Quotient Sciences has brought innovation to the pharmaceutical services sector through its unique Translational Pharmaceutics® platform, which is proven to accelerate development timelines, reduce development costs, and drive improvement in R&D productivity. Quotient Sciences was founded in 1990 and is based in Nottingham, England.

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Buyer(S) 1

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 129 of 170
Sector: Life Science M&A 2 of 7
Type: Recapitalization M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 30 of 34
Year: 2019 M&A 3 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-07-10 Reformation

Los Angeles, California, United States

Reformation is a digitally-led women’s contemporary apparel brand. The company puts sustainability at the core of everything it does, from materials innovation to its sustainable partner factories around the world. Reformation was founded in 2009 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-08-07 Cambrex

East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States

Cambrex is a life sciences company that provides products, services, and technologies to accelerate the development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics. Cambrex was formed in 1981 and is headquartered in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Buy $2.4B

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

GHO Capital Partners

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2014
PE ASSETS 6.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

GHO Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on the healthcare sector. The Firm will consider opportunities throughout Europe and seeks well-established, profitable businesses that have the potential to deliver a combination of double-digit top line growth, significant efficiency gains and international expansion. GHO Capital Partners was established in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 5
Sector: Life Science M&A 1 of 5
Type: Recapitalization M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2019 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-02-12 Sterling Pharma Solutions

Northumberland, United Kingdom

Sterling Pharma Solutions is a provider of API development and manufacturing. Sterling delivers a full-service offering of API development and GMP manufacturing to support its customers throughout the entire product lifecycle. Sterling Pharma Solutions is based in Northumberland, United Kingdom.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-07-31 CellCarta

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

CellCarta is a provider of specialized precision medicine laboratory services to the biopharmaceutical industry. Leveraging its integrated analytical platforms in immunology, histopathology, proteomics and genomics, as well as related specimen collection and logistics services, CellCarta supports the entire drug development cycle, from discovery to late-stage clinical trials. CellCarta was founded in 2000 and is based in Montreal, Quebec.

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