| 1. |
TPG Capital and CPP Investment Board |
IMS Health |
$5.2 billion; provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries |
| 2. |
Walt Disney Company |
Marvel Entertainment |
$4 billion; Character-based entertainment company providing licensing, entertainment and publishing of the Marvel characters to Disney |
| 3. |
EQT Partners, GIC Special Investments |
Springer Science+Business Media (Germany) |
$3.4 billion; Scientific, technical and medical publisher |
| 4. |
Adobe Systems |
Omniture |
$1.8 billion; Audience analytics |
| 5. |
Charterhouse Capital Partners |
Wood Mackenzie |
$905MM for Wood Mackenzie; Energy research and consulting firm |
| 6. |
Autonomy Corporation Plc (U.K.) |
Interwoven, Inc. |
$775MM; Legal and Web content management software and services; Rev $225.7MM |
| 7. |
Google, Inc. |
AdMob |
$750MM; Mobile display ad technology provider |
| 8. |
Apollo Global, Inc. (Apollo Group, Inc. and The Carlyle Group) |
BPP Holdings Plc (U.K.) |
$607MM; Education and training services for the U.K. market |
| 9. |
TD Ameritrade |
thinkorswim Group Inc. |
$606MM ($225MM in cash, $481MM in stock); Online brokerage firm and investor education services; Rev. $380MM, EBITDA $87MM |
| 10. |
BC Partners |
ATI Enterprises (The Riverside Company) |
$581MM; Career training company operating 24 campuses in 5 states; Rev. $230MM, EBITDA $70MM |
