| 1. |
Thomson Corporation |
Reuters |
$17.1 billion; Business, financial and global news and information services; Rev. $5.2 billion; op. inc. $521.6MM |
| 2. |
Apax Partners, OMERS Capital Partners |
Thomson Corporation |
$7.75 billion for Thomson Learning and Nelson Canada; Higher education, career learning and library reference assets. Rev. $2.4 billion, profit $383MM |
| 3. |
Houghton Mifflin Company |
Reed Elsevier |
$4 billion ($3.7 billion in cash and $300MM in common stock) for Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann; Elementary, secondary and supplemental education publishers |
| 4. |
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Citigroup Private Equity, S.A.C. Capital Management, LLC, SPG Partners; Bregal Investments, Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, Sterling Capital, Makena Capital, Torreal S.A., and Southern Cross Capital |
Laureate Education, Inc. |
$3.8 billion; Career-oriented undergraduate and graduate programs through online and campus-based universities; Annualized rev. $1.2 billion, EBITDA $268.9MM |
| 5. |
Google Inc. |
DoubleClick Inc. (Hellman & Friedman, JMI Equity) |
$3.1 billion; Digital marketing technology and services |
| 6. |
Macrovision Corporation |
Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. |
$2.8 billion; Media, entertainment, and technology company that develops, licenses, markets and distributes products and services primarily for the consumer market |
| 7. |
Source Interlink Companies, Inc. |
Primedia Inc. |
$1.2 billion for Primedia's Enthusiast Media division; Deal includes more than 70 magazines, and more than 90 Web sites; Rev. $524.8MM |
| 8. |
Veronis Suhler Stevenson |
BAdvanstar Holdings Corp. (DLJ Merchant Banking Partners) |
$1.14 billion; Publisher serving the fashion & licensing, life sciences and power sports industries: 2006 adjusted EBITDA $94MM |
| 9. |
Informa Group |
Datamonitor Plc. |
$992MM; Data, analysis and the automotive, consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare and technology/telecoms industries; Rev. $139MM, EBITDA $32MM |
| 10. |
Cengage Learning |
Houghton Mifflin |
$750MM for Houghton Mifflin College Division; College textbooks and related materials |
