M&A Deal Summary

Platinum Equity Acquires Anuvu

On August 18, 2025, private equity firm Platinum Equity acquired communications company Anuvu

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Platinum Equity’s 7th transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is Platinum Equity’s 120th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Platinum Equity’s 6th transaction in Illinois.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2025-08-18
Target Anuvu
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) Platinum Equity
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Advisor(s) Drake Star Partners (Financial)

Target

Anuvu

Lombard, Illinois, United States
Anuvu is a provider of media, content, connectivity, and data analytics to markets across air, sea, and land. Anuvu offers a fully integrated suite of rich media content and seamless connectivity solutions to airlines, cruise lines, commercial ships, high-end yachts, ferries, and land locations worldwide. Global Eagle Entertainment was founded in 2004 and is based in Lombard, Illinois.

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Buyer

Platinum Equity

Beverly Hills, California, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1995
PE ASSETS 50.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Platinum Equity's headquarters in Beverly Hills, California.
Platinum Equity's headquarters in Beverly Hills, California.

Platinum Equity is a private equity firm focused on acquiring divestitures of larger public companies primarily in North America and Europe. Historically, Platinum targeted technology/software related businesses, however, the firm has since branched out beyond tech and will consider acquisitions in a broad range of industries including chemicals, communications, logistics, healthcare, automotive, industrial products, and business services. Platinum Equity was formed in 1995 by Tom Gores and is based in Beverly Hills, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 154 of 156
Sector: Communications M&A 7 of 7
Type: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI) M&A Deals 25 of 25
State: Illinois M&A 6 of 6
Country: United States M&A 120 of 121
Year: 2025 M&A 4 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-07-14 McGraw Hill Education

New York City, New York, United States

McGraw Hill Education is a provider of educational material and learning solutions for students, instructors, and institutions around the world. McGraw Hill Education was founded in 1888 and is based in New York City, New York.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-09-11 XD Connects

Rijswijk, Netherlands

XD Connects is a designer & provider of niche segments for higher-quality functional promotional products/business gifts for the B2B and B2C market, serving 4,500 distributors all over Europe. XD Connects was founded in 1986 and is based in Rijswijk, Netherlands.

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