| Bain Capital Double Impact backs ConvenientMD, Berkshire's Affordable Care awaits bids, TPG, Francisco's Boomi reflects 'growth buyouts' trend
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For sale: Boston’s Berkshire Partners is exploring a sale of Affordable Care that could value the country’s largest dental support organization focused on tooth replacement at more than $2 billion, PE Hub has learned. Swiss buyout firm Partners Group is a minority investor in Affordable Care through its debt platform, with the investors having partnered in 2015 to acquire the business in an $825 million LBO, according to Pitchbook.
The so-called “integration platform as a service” (iPaaS) market is attracting substantial interest from well-known investors like TPG Capital and Francisco Partners. According to TPG's Nehal Raj, the firm's recent investment in Boomi reflects a new trend of “growth buyouts,” where traditional late-stage investors are prioritizing businesses with strong growth profiles – some of which are growing as much as 30 percent to 50 percent annually – over high margins in the near term. This is because...
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Also of note (may require subscriptions) New pool: Mountaingate Capital launched a second lower mid-market buyout offering, five years after transitioning from predecessor firm KRG Capital Partners. Fund II is seeking roughly the same amount raised by Mountaingate’s inaugural fund. Fund I closed in 2017 at its $395 million hard-cap. Read it here.
Transparency: Perhaps the most important lesson secondaries professionals have learned over the past few years is the importance of transparency, Buyouts writes. The need for transparency, while always a vital aspect of executing a successful GP-led deal, is taking on even greater significance in deals where external M&A buyers express interest in picking off assets included in secondaries transactions. A recent situation involving New Mountain Capital is one example. Read more on Buyouts.
No dairy please: Oatly Group expects to raise as much as $1.65 billion for itself and its investors in an initial public offering, potentially giving the maker of plant-based food and drink products a total valuation of over $10 billion, writes Bloomberg. The maker of oak milk among other products is backed by investors including Blackstone Group, Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z, plus Starbucks founder Howard Schultz.
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They said it “We are seeing some of the highest-quality dealflow that we have ever encountered in the secondaries industry, because blue-chip GPs are laser-targeting their most preferred assets to hold on to for longer.”
Matt Jones, partner and co-head of Pantheon’s secondaries team, who is set to join TPG as a co-managing partner of its global secondaries business, speaking to Private Equity International
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