M&A Deal Summary

Quest Acquires Metalogix Software

On June 29, 2018, Quest acquired software company Metalogix Software from Permira

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Quest’s 7th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Quest’s 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Quest’s 1st transaction in District of Columbia.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2018-06-29
Target Metalogix Software
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Quest
Sellers(s) Permira
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Metalogix Software

Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Metalogix Software Corp. is a provider of content infrastructure management software to transform collaboration platforms, increase knowledge sharing, and improve the use and performance of enterprise content management platforms. Metalogix Software Corp. was founded in 2001 and is based in Washington, District of Columbia.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Quest

Aliso Viejo, California, United States
Category Company
Sector Software
DESCRIPTION

Quest is a provider of a broad suite of integrated infrastructure software for managing systems, data, and applications. Quest helps organizations be IT resilient by protecting and powering users, endpoints and data, as well as by hardening cybersecurity systems. Quest is based in Aliso Viejo, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 11
Sector (Software) 7 of 10
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 7 of 11
State (District of Columbia) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 6 of 9
Year (2018) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-11-16 VKernel

Andover, Massachusetts, United States

VKernel Corporation provides performance and capacity management solutions for virtualized data centers/infrastructures and cloud environments in the United States and Europe.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-04-18 ApexSQL

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

ApexSQL LLC is a provider of SQL Server development and database tools. ApexSQL LLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Permira

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1985
PE ASSETS 75.0B 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 66 of 89
Sector (Software) 2 of 4
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 25 of 30
State (District of Columbia) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 9 of 19
Year (2018) 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-05-21 Magento

Campbell, California, United States

Magento, Inc. is a provider of cloud commerce innovation to merchants and brands across B2C and B2B industries. Magento, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Campbell, California.

Sell $1.7B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-07-02 BakerCorp

Seal Beach, California, United States

BakerCorp, Inc. is a provider of liquid containment rental equipment and services in the United States. BakerCorp maintains an equipment portfolio of over 15,000 pieces of rental equipment including steel tanks, polyethylene tanks, intermodal and roll-off container/boxes, pumps, pipes, hose and fittings, tank trailers, berms and filtration products. BakerCorp was founded in 1942 and is based in Seal Beach, California.

Sell $715M
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