Growth Capital • Oil/Gas Exploration

Warburg Pincus and Blue Water Energy Invest In Apex

On May 26, 2016, private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Blue Water Energy invested in oil/gas exploration company Apex

Investment Context
  • This is Warburg Pincus’ 31st and Blue Water Energy’s 5th transaction in the Oil/Gas Exploration sector.
  • This is Warburg Pincus’ 155th and Blue Water Energy’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Warburg Pincus’ 27th and Blue Water Energy’s 2nd transaction in Texas.

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Investment Summary

Date May 26, 2016
Target Apex
Sector Oil/Gas Exploration
Investor(s) Warburg Pincus
Blue Water Energy
Deal Type Growth Capital
Advisor(s) Greenhill & Co. (Financial)
Vinson & Elkins (Legal)

Target Company

Apex

Houston, Texas, United States
Apex is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Middle East and North Africa, predominantly Egypt. The Company also drills exploration wells outside of our development leases. Apex was founded in 2016 and is based in Houston, Texas.
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Investors Overview 2

Investor

Warburg Pincus

New York, New York, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1966
PE ASSETS 83.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Warburg Pincus is a mega-sized, global private equity firm focused on investment opportunities across North America, Asia, and Europe. Warburg will consider investing at various company stages, from early-stage opportunities to distressed situations. Warburg Pincus is organized by industry groups. Verticals include financial services, healthcare, technology, media & telecommunications, energy, consumer & industrial, and real estate. Within financial services, Warburg will consider asset/wealth managers, banks, exchanges, financial technology, insurance, transaction processing, private banking, and specialty/consumer finance. Within healthcare, specific areas of interest include medical devices, healthcare services, and biotech/pharmaceuticals. Within technology/media/communications, Warburg targets software, media/internet/information, financial technology, telecom, business services, and systems/semiconductors. Within energy, specific areas of interest include oil/gas exploration, power generation/transmission, and alternative energy. Warburg Pincus raised its first fund in 1966 and is based in New York City.


Deal Context for Investor #
Overall 305 of 493
Sector: Oil/Gas Exploration 31 of 40
Type: Growth Capital 98 of 159
State: Texas 27 of 40
Country: United States 155 of 242
Year: 2016 14 of 32
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-05-24 ACAMS

Houston, Texas, United States

ACAMS is a provider of training and certifications for anti-money laundering (“AML”) and financial crime prevention professionals. ACAMS has a large, global membership base with more than 90,000 members in 175 countries, including over 50,000 professionals with an ACAMS certification. ACAMS was founded in 2001 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Sell $330M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-06-07 Zimperium

Dallas, Texas, United States

Zimperium provides a mobile security platform purpose-built for enterprise environments. With machine learning-based protection and a single platform that secures everything from applications to endpoints, the company's solution provides on-device mobile threat defense to protect growing and evolving mobile environments. Zimperium was founded in 2010 and is based in Dallas, Texas.

Buy -
DESCRIPTION

Blue Water Energy is a private equity firm focused on building energy companies. Blue Water looks to invest up to $150 million per project with a focus on production, upstream equipment and services, and midstream/downstream equipment and services. Blue Water typically invests in partnership with experienced management teams that have a track record of value creation. Blue Water Energy was formed in 2011 and is based in London.


Deal Context for Investor #
Overall 13 of 24
Sector: Oil/Gas Exploration 5 of 6
Type: Growth Capital 7 of 13
State: Texas 2 of 4
Country: United States 2 of 5
Year: 2016 3 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-05-25 Galileo Technologies

Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Galileo Technologies is a global supplier of advanced technology in the gas compressor sector, offering solutions to reduce client operating costs or monetize new gas sources. Galileo Technologies was founded in 1987 and is based in Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-09-01 GPS

Singapore, Singapore

GPS is a midstream infrastructure platform formed to pursue the acquisition, construction and enhancement of storage and logistics assets outside North America. GPS owns a refined product terminal in the Port of Amsterdam and has two projects under construction – an industrial services terminal in Al Hamriyah Port in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and an LPG terminal in Port Klang, Malaysia. GPS is based in Singapore.

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