Explore All 173 Secondary Buyout Communications Deals - Search the Database Free
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| Date | December 5, 2005 |
| Target | Com Hem AB |
| Sector | Communications |
| Buyer(s) |
The Carlyle Group
Providence Equity Partners Ardian |
| Sellers(s) | EQT |
| Deal Type | Secondary Buyout |
| Deal Value | 1.2B EUR |
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| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1987 |
| PE ASSETS | 435.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
The Carlyle Group is a global investment firm that pursues private equity, credit, and real estate investments worldwide. Carlyle's private equity practice practice pursues buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, and growth capital financings. With offices in 19 countries, Carlyle can easily target opportunities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East/North Africa and Latin America. Broad sectors of interest include aerospace, defense, automotive and transportation, consumer, retail, energy and power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology services, business services, telecommunications and media. The Carlyle Group was formed in 1987 and is based in Washington DC.
| Deal Context for Buyer | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 206 of 750 |
| Sector: Communications | 18 of 26 |
| Type: Secondary Buyout | 10 of 130 |
| Country: Sweden | 3 of 4 |
| Year: 2005 | 29 of 32 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 49 of 137 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-12-01 |
Sight Resource
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Sight Resource Corporation provided a full range of primary eye care products and services. |
Sell | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-12-08 |
BNX Systems
Vienna, Virginia, United States BNX Systems Corporation provides user authentication management software for enterprise and Internet security functions, including smart card, biometrics, and token-based applications. |
Sell | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| PE ASSETS | 38.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Providence Equity Partners is a specialist private equity firm that targets investments in media, entertainment, communications, and information companies. Specifically, Providence seeks investments in wireless and wireline telephony, cable television content and distribution, music, film, publishing, radio and television broadcasting, and other media and communications sectors. Providence Equity looks to commit $150 million to $800 million of equity capital in transactions ranging from growth financings and recapitalizations, to buyouts and take-privates. Providence Equity Partners was formed in 1989 and has offices in Providence, Rhode Island; New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong, China; and New Delhi, India.
| Deal Context for Buyer | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 31 of 137 |
| Sector: Communications | 12 of 20 |
| Type: Secondary Buyout | 2 of 40 |
| Country: Sweden | 1 of 2 |
| Year: 2005 | 7 of 7 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 14 of 34 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-11-04 |
Grupo Corporativo ONO S.A.
Madrid, Spain Grupo Corporativo ONO S.A. is a broadband service provider. It offers direct access telephony, pay television and internet access services to the residential market where, ONO offers advanced voice, data and value-added services across its own high capacity local access and national backbone networks. |
Buy | €2.3B |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-01-01 |
ZP Better Together
Austin, Texas, United States ZP Better Together is a nationally recognized video relay service provider that enables Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing individuals to communicate with hearing people worldwide. The company provides videophone hardware, software, and accessories designed to allow for a real-time video connection with certified ASL interpreters who relay conversations between parties. ZP Better Together was founded in 2006 and is based in Austin, Texas. |
Buy | - |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| PE ASSETS | 127.0B USD |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
Ardian is a mega-sized diversified investment group focused on opportunities worldwide. Ardian invests across and manages funds focused on small and mid-sized buyouts, growth capital financings, mezzanine, infrastructure, real estate, and co-investment opportunities. Ardian's small-buyouts group targets controlling interests in French, German, and Italian businesses valued up to €100 million. It's mid-sized buyout group seeks businesses valued up €1.5 billion and does not have any geographic limitations. The Infrastructure team looks for European opportunities and can commit up to €1 billion per transaction. The Mezzanine group supports junior capital commitments of €5 to €80 million. In addition to direct investing, Ardian also manages various private equity fund-of-funds. Ardian was founded in 1996 and is based in Paris.
| Deal Context for Buyer | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 37 of 465 |
| Sector: Communications | 2 of 18 |
| Type: Secondary Buyout | 10 of 155 |
| Country: Sweden | 1 of 7 |
| Year: 2005 | 19 of 19 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 31 of 68 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-12-01 |
Seloger.Com SA
Paris, United States Seloger.Com SA is a web-based property for listing houses. Its sites include seloger.com and immostreet.com. |
Sell | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-12-15 |
Souriau-Sunbank Connection Technologies
Versailles, Pennsylvania, France Souriau SAS is a provider in connector solutions for industrial, military aeronautics and aerospace applications. The company makes a wide range of interconnection systems for severe environments (high pressure, extreme temperature, marine environments, exposure to electromagnetic or nuclear radiation, etc.) |
Sell | €483M |
| Category | Private Equity Firm |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1994 |
| PE ASSETS | 242.0B EUR |
| Size | Mega |
| Type | Sector Agnostic |
EQT is a global private equity group that purses a variety of investment strategies around the world. EQT is divided into several investment disciplines, including private capital, real assets, credit, and venture. The Firm's private capital group targets large, market-leading enterprises (investment size of €125 to €1.5 billion) across Europe and the US, as well as mid-market, growth companies (investment size of €40 to €125 million) across the US, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia. The Firm's real assets group seeks to identify control or co-control equity investments (investment size of €500 to €1 billion) in medium-sized infrastructure companies that provide an essential service to society, are recession resilient, and have secure cash flows. EQT's credit group provides flexible, long-term debt capital solutions to medium-sized European businesses, across a wide range of sectors. EQT was established in 1994 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
| Deal Context for Seller | # |
|---|---|
| Overall | 17 of 194 |
| Sector: Communications | 1 of 8 |
| Type: Secondary Buyout | 7 of 61 |
| Country: Sweden | 9 of 34 |
| Year: 2005 | 6 of 7 |
| Size (of disclosed) | 16 of 44 |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-11-07 |
ADR-Haanpaa
Helsinki, Finland ADR-Haanpaa is a road transportation and logistics services company for liquid chemicals in the Nordic region. ADR-Haanpaa is based in Helsinki, Finland. |
Sell | - |
| DATE | TARGET | DEAL TYPE | VALUE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-12-13 |
Bewator Holding AB
Solna, Sweden Bewator, a leading European supplier of products and systems for access control, in 2002. Bewator was an established player on the European security market with a broad product portfolio. |
Sell | - |
