M&A Deal Summary

Permira and European Capital Acquire Telepizza

On September 1, 2006, private equity firms Permira and European Capital acquired restaurant Telepizza for 962M EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Permira’s 1st and European Capital’s 1st transaction in the Restaurants sector.
  • This is Permira’s 34th and European Capital’s 11th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Permira’s 2nd and European Capital’s 2nd transaction in Spain.
Investment Fate
  • Telepizza went public in 2016.
  • Telepizza was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2019.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2006-09-01
Target Telepizza
Sector Restaurants
Buyer(s) Permira
European Capital
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Deal Value 962M EUR

Target

Telepizza

Madrid, Spain
Telepizza operates and manages stores, restaurants, and franchises that deliver pizzas. Telepizza also provides home delivery services. Telepizza was founded in 1987 and is based in Madrid, Spain.

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Buyer(S) 2

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 53 of 171
Sector: Restaurants M&A 1 of 4
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 36 of 55
Country: Spain M&A 2 of 5
Year: 2006 M&A 3 of 9
Size (of disclosed) 34 of 64
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-09-01 All3Media

London, United Kingdom

All3Media is an independent TV production company. All3Media comprises of over 15 companies and 28 creative centres based in the UK, the US, Germany, the Netherlands and Australasia. All3Media was formed in 2003 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Buy €531M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-09-14 FreeScale Semiconductor

Austin, Texas, United States

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. FreeScale designs, researches and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.

Buy $17.6B
Buyer

European Capital

London, United Kingdom

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2005
PE ASSETS 1.2B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

European Capital is the European investment affiliate of American Capital. European Capital looks to provide a variety of investment and financing solutions including unitranche debt, mezzanine capital, senior debt, and equity co-investment. Funds are typically used to support buyouts, recapitalizations, finance growth, and make acquisitions. European Capital is sector agnostic, however the Firm has a preference for investments in the consumer, technology, manufacturing, services, and distribution sectors. European Capital was formed in 2005 and is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 30 of 74
Sector: Restaurants M&A 1 of 3
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 14 of 32
Country: Spain M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2006 M&A 19 of 27
Size (of disclosed) 11 of 32
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-08-17 Numericable-SFR

Paris, France

Numericable-SFR is the cable operator providing digital television, broadband and telephony services to the residential market ('B2C'). The company also serves the enterprise market ('B2B') in France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-09-07 Capio

Goteborg, Sweden

Capio is a pan-European healthcare provider offering a broad range of medical, surgical, and psychiatric healthcare services through its hospitals, specialist clinics and primary care units. Capio was formed in 1994 and is based in Goteborg, Sweden.

Buy €1.7B