Apax Partners is a private equity investment group founded in the 1980s. The partners has more than 300 people in its team, located in 10 offices in Barcelona, Guernsey, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, New York, Shanghai and Tel Aviv.
Apax Partners investors are public pension funds, private pension funds, fund of funds, high net worth individuals, insurance, sovereign funds, banks, endowments, secondaries and others. Geographically, the investors are from Unites States, Europe, UK, Canada, Asia, Oceania and Middle East.
Apax Partners typically invests in large companies having value between EUR 1bn and EUR 5bn, in five business sectors:
- Financial & Business Services. Apax Funds have invested EUR 2.0bn in Financial & Business Services sector.
- Healthcare. This sector includes Services, Pharmaceuticals, IT and Devices & Products subsector. In the last ten years, Apax has invested more than EUR 2.5 billion in this sector across the United States, Europe and Asia.
- Media. In the past 10 years, Apax Funds have invested EUR 3.4bn of equity in this sector.
- Retail & Consumer. Apax Funds have invested EUR 2.4bn of equity in Retail and Consumer business sectors.
- Technology & Telecom. In the past 15 years, Apax Funds has invested more than EUR 3.8 billion in Technology & Telecom sector.
Some of Apax Partners recent investments portfolio by sector:
- Financial & Business Services: Psagot, Bankrate, HUB International Limited and Farmafactoring S.p.A.
- Healthcare: KCI, Marken, The Trizetto Group, Apollo Hospitals, Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, Unilabs, Capio AB and General Healthcare Group Limited.
- Media: Dealer.com, TRADER Corporation, SouFun, Emap, ALM, Cengage Learning, Trader Media Group and CME.
- Retail & Consumer: Golden Jaguar, Takko, Advantage Sales & Marketing, D+S europe, Tnuva Food Industries, Plantasjen, Sisal SpA and Tommy Hilfiger Corporation.
- Technology & Telecom: Epicor Software Corporation, iGATE Patni, iGATE Patni, TIVIT, Weather Investments S.p.A., SMART Technologies and NXP Semiconductors.
On December 23, 2011, Apax Partners announced that Funds it advises, agreed to acquire mobile phone operator Orange Switzerland from France Telecom Orange for approximately EUR 1.6 billion. The transaction is subject to Swiss competition authorities’ approval.
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