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The Carlyle Group Acquires Schaltbau Holding

On August 7, 2021, private equity firm The Carlyle Group acquired electrical equipment company Schaltbau Holding for 584M EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 8th transaction in the Electrical Equipment sector.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 76th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 22nd transaction in Germany.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2021-08-07
Target Schaltbau Holding
Sector Electrical Equipment
Buyer(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Going Private
Deal Value 584M EUR
Advisor(s) Lazard (Financial)
Gleiss Lutz (Legal)

Target

Schaltbau Holding

Munich, Germany
Schaltbau Holding, specializing in DC power and providing products and solutions that that enable electrification. With a broad portfolio of contactors, connectors, switches, and safety components, Schaltbau helps partners and customers solve today’s challenges in rail, energy, and e-mobility. Schaltbau Holding is based in Munich, Germany.

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The Carlyle Group

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1987
PE ASSETS 435.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.
Carlyle's corporate headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC.

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 STATS #
Overall 706 of 749
Sector: Electrical Equipment M&A 8 of 9
Type: Going Private M&A Deals 33 of 36
Country: Germany M&A 22 of 26
Year: 2021 M&A 18 of 28
Size (of disclosed) 76 of 137
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-07-29 J&J Africa

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J&J Africa is a transporter and logistics provider specializing in reliable and efficient international transportation along the Beira Corridor. J&J also offers state of the art warehouse facilities for the handling of bulk and container cargo. J&J Africa was established in 1995 and is based in Beira, Mozambique.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-08-17 Workforce Logiq

Orlando, Florida, United States

Workforce Logiq is a global provider of software and services to large corporations in the fast-growing, global workforce management space. Workforce Logiq was formed in 1999 and is based in Orlando, Florida.

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