Investment Summary

Riverside Invests In Sencore

On January 23, 2009, private equity firm Riverside invested in electronics company Sencore

Investment Highlights
  • This is Riverside’s 4th transaction in the Electronics sector.
  • This is Riverside’s 85th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Riverside’s 1st transaction in South Dakota.
Investment Fate
  • Sencore was sold to a strategic buyer in 2014.

Investment Summary

Date 2009-01-23
Target Sencore
Sector Electronics
Investor(s) Riverside
Deal Type Growth Capital
Advisor(s) Houlihan Lokey (Financial)

Target

Sencore

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
Sencore, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets a broad suite of products serving multiple segments of the global video, audio and data transmission industries. The company provides products and services for communication transmission infrastructure for broadcast, cable, telecommunications and consumer A/V products. Sencore also provides maintenance, home theatre/home automation installation and calibration, and medical imaging.

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Investor

Riverside

New York, New York, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1988
PE ASSETS 5.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm that seeks investments in profitable lower middle-market companies valued under $400 million. Riverside looks to invest in growth businesses headquartered in North America, Europe, and Asia (primarily Japan and South Korea), that have been in operation for at least five years. Riverside targets investments in a wide array of industries including distribution, automotive, healthcare, education, manufacturing, software, consumer services, plastics, publishing, food, communications, marine, and business services. Riverside was formed in 1988 and is based in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 115 of 295
Sector: Electronics M&A 4 of 8
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 4 of 65
State: South Dakota M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 85 of 203
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 6
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-10-10 Coeur

Lebanon, Tennessee, United States

Coeur, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of proprietary disposable medical products used primarily in imaging labs during diagnostic and therapeutic imaging procedures, such as angiography, computed tomography (“CT”) and magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”).

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-06-01 Nordco

Oak Creek, Wisconsin, United States

Nordco is a provider of highly-engineered equipment, parts and services to the railroad maintenance-of-way, railcar moving and rail flaw detection sectors. Nordco was founded in 1926 and is based in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

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