Silver Lake/P2 Capital Partners $3.5 billion acquisition of Blackhawk

Overview:

• Private equity firms Silver Lake and P2 Capital Partners have acquired Blackhawk for $3.5 billion.
• Blackhawk is a financial technology company. 
• The acquisition price includes debt.
• Sandler O‘Neill & Partners provided financial advice to Blackhawk, while Barclays, BofA Merrill Lynch, affiliates of Goldman, Sachs and JP Morgan acted for Silver Lake.
• Silver Lake's financial advisers also provided debt financing to Blackhawk in connection with the transaction.
• Citi provided debt financing to Blackhawk in connection with the transaction. 

Katrin Kostadinova - Data analyst