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M&A Deal Summary

The Carlyle Group Acquires SS&C Technologies

On November 22, 2005, private equity firm The Carlyle Group acquired software company SS&C Technologies for 942M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 19th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 59th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 119th transaction in the United States.
  • This is The Carlyle Group’s 3rd transaction in Connecticut.
Investment Fate
  • SS&C Technologies went public in 2010.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2005-11-22
Target SS&C Technologies
Sector Software
Buyer(s) The Carlyle Group
Deal Type Going Private
Deal Value 942M USD
Advisor(s) AGC Partners
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey (Financial)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (Legal)

Target

SS&C Technologies

Windsor, Connecticut, United States
SS&C Technologies is a software provider to the global financial services industry with a broad range of highly specialized software, software enabled-services and software as a service (SaaS) solutions for information management, analysis, trading, accounting, reporting and compliance. SS&C Technologies was founded in 1986 and is based in Windsor, Connecticut.

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Buyer

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 204 of 749
Sector: Software M&A 19 of 57
Type: Going Private M&A Deals 3 of 36
State: Connecticut M&A 3 of 7
Country: United States M&A 119 of 350
Year: 2005 M&A 27 of 32
Size (of disclosed) 59 of 137
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