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Transactions / Metro Fire & Safety
Metro Fire & Safety Joins the PBFS Team
Add-on acquisitionannouncedadd-onannounced Feb 8, 2017Fact
What happened
- Target
- Metro Fire & Safety
- Platform
- Pye-Barker Fire & Safetyadd-on basis: Pye Barker Fire & Safety is held by Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. (holding evidence https://www.leonardgreen.com/portfolio/)
- Control
- Control
- Share acquired
- unknown
- Industry
- unknown
- Target location
- unknown
- Seller kind
- unknown
- Rollover
- unknown
Values, only where disclosed
- Enterprise value
- Not disclosed
- Purchase price
- Not disclosed
- Equity value
- Not disclosed
- Target revenue
- Not disclosed
- Target EBITDA
- Not disclosed
- Multiple
- Not disclosed
Parties and roles
4 named
Buy side
- “Pye Barker Fire & Safety is held by Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. (holding evidence https://www.leonardgreen.com/portfolio/)”
- “Pye Barker Fire & Safety is held by Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. (holding evidence https://www.leonardgreen.com/portfolio/)”
Sell side
- “Owner, Charles Sanford, is a retired Durham city fireman who decided to continue his service to the community by opening a fire protection company over 20 years ago.”
Side not stated
- “We are pleased to announce the newest addition to the Pye Barker Fire & Safety family, Metro Fire & Safety out of Durham, NC.”
Evidence
“We are pleased to announce the newest addition to the Pye Barker Fire & Safety family, Metro Fire & Safety out of Durham, NC.”
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