Francisco Partners Management, L.P.

Francisco Partners Management, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in financing divisional spinouts, divisional buyouts including divestiture, acquisitions and "take privates" of public companies, transformational capital, sponsored mergers and acquisitions, industry consolidation, acquisitions of private and public companies, strategic minority investments in public and private companies, fallen angels, management buyouts, growth equity financing, recapitalizations, restructurings in the middle market, public-to-privates, divisional carve-outs, sponsored M&A, and companies facing strategic or operational inflection points. In growth equity financing, the firm seeks to invest in industry roll-ups, joint ventures, and adjacent market opportunities that may evolve from situations such as post-venture capital funding needs, sponsor changes, or assets hidden within larger companies. It prefers to invest in mature or maturing technology and technology-related service companies. The firm seeks to invest in communications, internet, hardware, industrial, information technology services and software, financial technology, healthcare technology, outsourcing and transaction processing services, semiconductors and capital equipment, electronic product distributors, electronics components, systems, and manufacturing, business process outsourcing, security and enterprise application and infrastructure software, and communications service providers. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in Europe with focuses on North America, U.S., Western Europe, and Israel. It prefers to invest in companies with enterprise values between $30 million to $5000 million. The firm makes equity investments ranging from $20 million to $4000 million. It typically acquires a majority or controlling stake in its portfolio companies. The firm generally acquires a seat on the Board of Directors in the portfolio companies. Francisco Partners Management, L.P. was founded in August 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.