Hellman & Friedman
The Hellman & Friedman LLC is a Founded in 1984, private equity firm based in San Francisco , London and New York .
Business activity
Hellman & Friedman held a 19.4% stake in Axel Springer AG in Germany. She sold her shares in 2008 to Deutsche Bank . It also has an 18.58% stake in German Media Partners LP . The latter is a partnership with other fund companies and the media entrepreneur Haim Saban .
Hellman & Friedman bought DoubleClick in 2005 , reorganized the structure, added a. a. added Falk eSolutions AG (not affiliated with Falk Verlag ) to the package and then sold DoubleClick in April 2007 for $ 3.1 billion to Google Inc.
Internet Brands Inc. has been part of Hellman & Friedman since 2010 . Internet Brands owns numerous websites, especially forums and social networks, on the topics of automobiles, guides, jobs, legal aid, travel, shopping, financial services and more. These include, for example, Wikitravel and the forum software developer vBulletin .
The market research company The Nielsen Company has owned Hellman & Friedman since 2006, Catalina Marketing since 2007 , and the Getty Images picture agency and its subsidiaries (including iStockphoto ) since 2008 . In 2014, the company also took over 70 percent of the Scout Group from Deutsche Telekom AG .
In September 2016 Hellman & Friedman sold all of its shares in Scout24 AG in a so-called "accelerated bookbuilding" process. A total of around 13.6 million shares were placed at a price of EUR 31.60.
In April 2020, Hellman & Friedmann took over the AutoScout24 marketplace from Scout24 AG for 2.84 billion euros.
Web links
- Company website (JavaScript and Flash required)
- Hellman & Friedman Fund at kek-online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Bank takes over 8 percent. In: Manager Magazin , December 18, 2008, accessed January 19, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.scout24.com/Unternehmen.aspx
- ↑ Scout24: Autoscout24 is sold. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .