KKR and Anchor Equity Partners $360 million acquisition of TicketMonster

Overview:

• KKR and Anchor Equity Partners have acquired TicketMonster for $360 million from Groupon Trailblazer.
• TicketMonster is South Korea’s second biggest mobile commerce company that deals in tickets to events nationwide.
• The consortium bought a controlling stake in a deal that values TicketMonster at $782 million, giving Groupon a sizeable return on its initial acquisition. 

Katrin Kostadinova - Data analyst