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Thoma Bravo Acquires Elemica

On June 7, 2016, private equity firm Thoma Bravo acquired information technology company Elemica

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Thoma Bravo’s 16th transaction in the Information Technology sector.
  • This is Thoma Bravo’s 51st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Thoma Bravo’s 5th transaction in Pennsylvania.
Investment Fate
  • Elemica was sold to a consortium of financial buyers in 2019.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-06-07
Target Elemica
Sector Information Technology
Buyer(s) Thoma Bravo
Deal Type Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)
Advisor(s) Houlihan Lokey (Financial)
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders (Legal)

Target

Elemica

Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States
Elemica is a Digital Supply Network for the process manufacturing industries. Elemica accelerates digital transformation by connecting, automating, anticipating, and then transforming inter-business supply chain processes for the products they buy, sell, move, and comply. Elemica was founded in 2000 and is based in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

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Buyer

Thoma Bravo

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1980
PE ASSETS 127.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Thoma Bravo is a private equity firm that primarily invests in or acquires US-based middle-market businesses. While Thoma Bravo will consider a variety of transaction situations, including take-privates, buyouts, carve-outs, recapitalizations, and growth equity financings, the Firm has a special interest in tech consolidation opportunities. Target companies generally have a history of profitability with EBITDA of at least $20 million. The Firm's equity commitment size range is $100 to $750 million. Sectors of interest include enterprise and infrastructure software, education, distribution, financial services and consumer goods/services. The Firm will not invest in new inventions or technologies, developmental products or services, start-ups, biotech, motion pictures, distressed businesses, oil/gas, or real estate. Thoma Bravo was formerly known as Thoma Cressey Bravo and before that Golder Thoma & Co. The Firm was originally formed in 1980 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 52 of 142
Sector (Information Technology) 16 of 37
Type (Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI)) 15 of 28
State (Pennsylvania) 5 of 7
Country (United States) 51 of 123
Year (2016) 3 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-06-02 Qlik

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Qlik provides visual analytics software with a portfolio of products that meets customers’ growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded, and custom analytics. It provides information from varied sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Qlik was founded in 1993 and is based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Buy $3.0B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-06-23 BeyondTrust

Johns Creek, Georgia, United States

BeyondTrust is a provider of secure access solutions. BeyondTrust enables customers to quickly access and protect endpoints, defend privileged credentials, and support technology end-users to help businesses fight cyber threats while speeding performance. BeyondTrust was founded in 2003 and is based in Johns Creek, Georgia.

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