M&A Deal Summary

Tencent Holdings Acquires Turtle Rock Studios

On December 17, 2021, Tencent Holdings acquired digital media company Turtle Rock Studios

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Tencent Holdings’ 4th transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is Tencent Holdings’ 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Tencent Holdings’ 4th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2021-12-17
Target Turtle Rock Studios
Sector Digital Media
Buyer(s) Tencent Holdings
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Straddling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth
Kabealo Law (Legal)

Target

Turtle Rock Studios

Lake Forest, California, United States
Turtle Rock Studios is a game developer best known as the creators of Back 4 Blood, Evolve, and Left 4 Dead. Turtle Rock Studios is currently supporting its acclaimed co-op shooter, Back 4 Blood, in partnership with Warner Bros. Games. Turtle Rock Studios is based in Lake Forest, California.

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Buyer

Tencent Holdings

Shenzhen, China

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees111,221
Revenue 660.3B CNY (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Tencent is a provider of a comprehensive range of Internet and wireless value-added services. Through its various online platforms, including Instant Messaging QQ, web portal QQ.com, the QQ Game platform under Tencent Games, multi-media social networking service Qzone and wireless portal, Tencent services the largest online community in China and fulfills the user's needs for communication, information, entertainment and e-Commerce on the Internet. Tencent has three main streams of revenues: Internet value-added services, mobile and telecommunications value-added services and online advertising. Tencent Holdings was founded in 1998 and is based in Shenzhen, China.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 14
Sector: Digital Media M&A 4 of 5
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 5
State: California M&A 4 of 4
Country: United States M&A 4 of 4
Year: 2021 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-06-12 Bitauto Holdings

Beijing, China

Bitauto Holdings Ltd. is a provider of internet content & marketing services, and transaction services for China's automotive industry. Bitauto's business consists of three segments: advertising and subscription business, transaction services business, and digital marketing solutions business. The company's advertising and subscription business provides a variety of advertising services to automakers through the bitauto.com website and corresponding mobile apps which provide consumers with up-to-date automobile pricing and promotional information, specifications, reviews, and consumer feedback. Bitauto also provides transaction-focused online advertisements and services for promotional activities to its business partners, including automakers, automobile dealers, auto finance partners, and insurance companies. Bitauto offers subscription services via its SaaS platform, which provides web-based and mobile-based integrated digital marketing solutions to new car automobile dealers in China. The SaaS platform enables automobile dealer subscribers to create their own online showrooms, list pricing, and promotional information, provide automobile dealer contact information, place advertisements and manage customer relationships to help them reach a broad set of purchase-minded customers and effectively market their automobiles to consumers online. Bitauto was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Buy $1.1B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-01-25 Sumo Group

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Sumo Group provides acclaimed development and design services to the video games and entertainment industries from studios in the UK, India, Canada, and the US. Sumo Group was founded in 2003 and is based in Sheffield, England.

Buy $1.3B