M&A Deal Summary

Vistria Group and GHO Capital Partners Acquire Alcami

On November 8, 2022, private equity firms Vistria Group and GHO Capital Partners acquired life science company Alcami from Madison Dearborn Partners and Ampersand Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Vistria Group’s 5th and GHO Capital Partners’ 13th transaction in the Life Science sector.
  • This is Vistria Group’s 26th and GHO Capital Partners’ 9th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Vistria Group’s 2nd and GHO Capital Partners’ 3rd transaction in North Carolina.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2022-11-08
Target Alcami
Sector Life Science
Buyer(s) Vistria Group
GHO Capital Partners
Sellers(s) Madison Dearborn Partners
Ampersand Capital Partners
Deal Type Secondary Buyout
Advisor(s) Morgan Stanley (Financial)
Kirkland & Ellis (Legal)

Target

Alcami

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Alcami is a fully-integrated end-to-end contract development and manufacturing organization. Alcami serves pharmaceutical and biotech companies of all sizes providing customizable and innovative solutions for analytical development, clinical to commercial sterile and oral solid manufacturing, packaging, microbiology, cGMP biostorage, environmental monitoring, and pharmaceutical support services. Alcami was founded in 1979 and is based in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Buyer(S) 2

DESCRIPTION

The Vistria Group is a middle-market private equity firm focused on the education, healthcare, and financial services industries. Vistria was formed in 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 26 of 30
Sector: Life Science M&A 5 of 5
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 10 of 14
State: North Carolina M&A 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 26 of 30
Year: 2022 M&A 7 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-06-28 Sandstone Care

Denver, Colorado, United States

Sandstone Care is a provider of high-quality care for young people with a variety of behavioral and mental health conditions including depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, substance use disorder, or any set of co-occurring conditions. Sandstone Care was founded in 2015 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-06-15 MGT

Tampa, Florida, United States

MGT is a provider of social impact and performance improvement solutions for public agencies, philanthropic organizations, and Fortune 500 companies across the U.S. and abroad. The company has expanded its education and technology solutions portfolio with the addition of Davis Demographics, EH&A, Kitamba, Ed Direction, Cira Infotech, Layer 3 Communications, and Step By Step Learning. It provides highly specialized solutions addressing mission-critical client priorities that improve outcomes and helps organizations and communities thrive. MGT was founded in 1975 and is based in Tampa, Florida.

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Buyer

GHO Capital Partners

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2014
PE ASSETS 6.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

GHO Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on the healthcare sector. The Firm will consider opportunities throughout Europe and seeks well-established, profitable businesses that have the potential to deliver a combination of double-digit top line growth, significant efficiency gains and international expansion. GHO Capital Partners was established in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 20 of 25
Sector: Life Science M&A 13 of 16
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 10 of 12
State: North Carolina M&A 3 of 3
Country: United States M&A 9 of 12
Year: 2022 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-01-11 RoslinCT

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

RoslinCT is a global contract development and manufacturing services organization (CDMO) focused on Advanced Cell and Gene Therapies. RoslinCT is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-12-01 Sapio Sciences

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Sapio Sciences is a lab informatics platform providing LIMS, ELN and Data management solutions to Biopharma, CROs and clinical diagnostic labs. Sapio Sciences was founded in 2004 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Buy -

Seller(S) 2

SELLER

Madison Dearborn Partners

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1992
PE ASSETS 31.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) is a large private equity firm that targets buyouts of private or publicly held companies, divestitures of larger companies, recapitalizations of family-owned or closely-held companies, acquisition-oriented financings, and financings to fund internal growth. MDP's target investment size is $100 to $600 million in buyout oriented transactions and $100 to $400 million in growth capital commitments. Areas of interest include basic industries (natural resources, chemicals, energy and power, automotive, building products, food, metals and mining, refining, paper, packaging and forest products, and general manufacturing), as well as communications, consumer products/services, financial services, and healthcare. Madison Dearborn Partners was formed in 1992 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 69 of 79
Sector: Life Science M&A 2 of 2
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 13 of 14
State: North Carolina M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 60 of 69
Year: 2022 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-08-01 EVO

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

EVO is a payment technology and services provider that offers an array of innovative, reliable, and secure payment solutions to merchants across the globe EVO was founded in 1989 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sell $4.0B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-12-19 Great Gray Trust

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Great Gray Trust is a service provider to collective investment trust (“CIT”) asset managers and qualified retirement plans and their advisors. Great Gray provides trustee services, including managing and monitoring the CIT’s investment advisors and their compliance with the CIT’s investment policy. Great Gray also provides critical administrative services, including regulatory compliance, governance and reporting, fund onboarding, and fund audit and accounting, as well as sales support. Great Gray Trust is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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SELLER

Ampersand Capital Partners

Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1988
PE ASSETS 3.0B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Ampersand Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity group that concentrates on growth equity investment opportunities in the healthcare sector. The Firm looks to invest $10 to $100 million in businesses with $10 to $100 million of revenue. Specific areas of interests within healthcare include lab products, specialty diagnostic equipment, pharmaceutical outsourcing, and specialty pharma. Ampersand generally prefers to be the first and sole institutional investor. Ampersand was formed in 1988 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 54 of 56
Sector: Life Science M&A 24 of 26
Type: Secondary Buyout M&A Deals 6 of 6
State: North Carolina M&A 4 of 4
Country: United States M&A 51 of 51
Year: 2022 M&A 7 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-10-03 GenDx

Utrecht, Netherlands

GenDx is a Dutch company specializing in Molecular Diagnostics, focused on the development, production, and sales of innovative assays and analysis software for transplantation and companion diagnostics. GenDx specializes in HLA sequencing-based typing strategies and offers reagents and software for both Sanger and NGS approaches. GenDx was founded in 2005 and is based in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Sell €135M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-05-02 P95

Leuven, Belgium

P95 is a global provider of clinical and epidemiology research solutions with a specialty focus on vaccines and infectious diseases. P95 offers a wide range of solutions including phase I-IV clinical studies, epidemiology, and RWE studies, in addition to scientific and clinical development consulting. It provides end-to-end services including study start-up, clinical monitoring, sample management, medical monitoring and pharmacovigilance, qualitative research, medical writing, data management, biostatistics, and IT. P95 was founded in 2011 and is based in Leuven, Belgium.

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