M&A Deal Summary

Sikorsky Support Services Acquires LifePort

On January 1, 2011, Sikorsky Support Services acquired aerospace company LifePort from Sorenson Capital

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Sikorsky Support Services’ 1st transaction in the Aerospace sector.
  • This is Sikorsky Support Services’ 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Sikorsky Support Services’ 1st transaction in Washington.
Investment Fate
  • LifePort was sold to a financial buyer in 2021.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-01-01
Target LifePort
Sector Aerospace
Buyer(s) Sikorsky Support Services
Sellers(s) Sorenson Capital
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

LifePort

Woodland, Washington, United States
LifePort specializes in the manufacture of cabin components, mechanical devices, cabinetry and finished interior structures for helicopters and business jets. LifePort was founded in 1990 and is based in Woodland, Washington.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Sikorsky Support Services

Shelton, Connecticut, United States

Category Company
Founded 1984
Sector Aerospace
DESCRIPTION

SSSI currently supports military and commercial operators by providing cost efficient aviation maintenance, logistics, and technical services tailored to our customers' needs.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Aerospace M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Washington M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Sorenson Capital

Lehi, Utah, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2003
PE ASSETS 1.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Sorenson Capital is a private equity firm that seeks to support buyout and growth capital financings of lower middle-market companies. Sorenson invests across a broad range of industries and generally pursues companies with significant market share, high barriers to entry, fragmented industry competition, motivated managment, and sustainable pricing and profit margins. Target businesses typically have sales of $30 to $300 million with earnings of $3 to $25 million. Sorenson's geographic preference is for opportunities in the Mountain West and West Coast regions of the US. Sorenson raised its inaugural fund in 2004 and is based in Lehi, Utah.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 30
Sector: Aerospace M&A 1 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 16
State: Washington M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 5 of 29
Year: 2011 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-01-01 InMoment

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

InMoment is a cloud-based customer experience (CX) optimization platform. InMoment’s cloud-native XI Platform is engineered with data science at the core, and specifically architected to harness intelligence from across the entire experience ecosystem to deliver clear business value. InMoment was founded in 2002 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-09-14 Mountain City Meat Co.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Mountain City Meat Company is one of the largest independent ?further processing? beef plants in the US, with major plants in Denver and Nashville that allow the company to provide nationwide programs. The company buys partially processed beef from the major packing plants and creates a broad range of value-added, custom steak cuts and ground beef products for restaurant, food-service, and retail customers. Its products are highly customized to meet customer-specific size, portioning, shape, filling, flavoring, packaging, or branding needs.

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