Searchlight Capital

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Searchlight Capital Partners
Company type Private
Industry Private equity
Founded2010;14 years ago (2010)
Founder Eric Zinterhofer
Oliver Haarmann
Erol Uzumeri
Headquarters
745 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10151
,
US
Number of locations
New York City, London, Toronto
Area served
North America, Europe
AUM US$15 billion (2023)
Number of employees
>120
Website http://www.searchlightcap.com/

Searchlight Capital Partners is a private equity firm based in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, with $15 billion in assets under management. [1]

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History

Searchlight Capital was founded in 2010 by Eric Zinterhofer, Oliver Haarmann, and Erol Uzumeri, its founding partners. [2] [3] It has offices in New York City, London and Toronto. [3]

In January 2012, Searchlight Capital completed the acquisition of the famed rubber Wellington Boot manufacturer Hunter Boot Ltd. [4] In April 2012, Searchlight closed its first fund Searchlight Fund I at $860m. [5]

In July 2014, Searchlight Capital acquired the Canadian meat and frozen food retail chain M&M Food Market. [6]

In June 2015, Searchlight Capital (40%) and Liberty Global (60%) jointly acquired Choice Cable TV, Puerto Rico's second-largest cable operator, for US$272.5 million. [3] In October 2015, the company acquired a majority stake in the Canadian apparel brand Roots Canada, with a minority stake still held by its founders. [7]

In December 2015, Searchlight closed its second fund with $1.94 billion of commitments. [3]

In April 2018, Searchlight acquired Canadian enterprise telecommunications company Mitel in an all-cash transaction of $2 billion. [8]

In July 2021, Searchlight acquired the fixed wireless Internet Service Provider All Points Broadband. [9] In October 2021 Searchlight acquired a minority stake of M&A insurance MGA Euclid Transactional, based in New York. [10]

In November 2020, Searchlight Capital closed Fund III at $3.4billion, [11] beating $2.75billion target. [12]

In October 2022, Searchlight Capital bought a minority stake of Singapore shipmanager Synergy Marine Group in an undisclosed deal. [13] [14]

In April 2023, Searchlight Capital became bidding partner of Providence Equity for its agreed takeover offer of global event organiser Hyve Group, [15] with the deal completed in June 2023. [16] In May 2023, Searchlight, together with payments company Rev Worldwide, acquired Netspend consumer business from Global Payments in an all-cash transaction valued at $1 billion. [17] [18]

In July 2023, the company announced the acquisition of Gresham House, a UK-based asset manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a £470 million deal. [19] [20]

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