Golub Capital Provides $480 Million Senior Credit Facilities to Support the Buyout of Drillinginfo by Genstar Capital LLC
CHICAGO, Aug. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Golub Capital recently announced that, as Administrative Agent, Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner, it provided a $480 million senior credit facilities to support the buyout of Drillinginfo (the "Company") by Genstar Capital LLC ("Genstar").
Drillinginfo is the leading software, data, and analytics platform for the energy value chain. The Drillinginfo platform is powered by an ever-expanding, industry-leading dataset derived from public and proprietary energy industry sources and delivered through a SaaS platform providing decision support insights to exploration and production companies, oilfield services companies, electrical power companies, and other commodity market and capital market participants. The Company serves over 3,500 customers in 50 countries and has over 45,000 named users. Headquartered in Austin, TX, Drillinginfo has over 675 employees across 13 offices. Genstar will use the financing to support the continued growth of the Drillinginfo platform.
"As a leading technology provider that delivers vital competitive intelligence to companies across the oil and gas value chain, Drillinginfo aligns with our focus on investing in data-driven technology companies operating in dynamic markets," said David Graham, Principal at Genstar Capital. "We selected Golub Capital to finance this transaction based on their long track record of providing flexible and scalable solutions to support growth."
"Drillinginfo's leading market position, strong management team and compelling value proposition are an excellent fit to our strategy of supporting mission-critical software platforms with high growth potential," said Troy Oder, Managing Director at Golub Capital. "We look forward to partnering with Genstar to realize this potential."
About Golub Capital Middle Market Lending
Golub Capital's Middle Market Lending group provides financing for middle market, private equity-backed transactions with hold positions of up to $600 million and underwrites and arranges credit facilities of up to $1 billion. Golub Capital's award-winning team strives to establish long-term, win-win partnerships by providing dependable, fast and creative solutions that meet private equity sponsors' and portfolio companies' needs.
Golub Capital is a nationally recognized credit asset manager with over $25 billion of capital under management. For over 20 years, Golub Capital has provided credit to help medium-sized U.S. businesses grow. The firm's award-winning Middle Market Lending business provides financing for middle market companies and their private equity sponsors. Golub Capital's credit expertise also forms the foundation of its Late Stage Lending and Broadly Syndicated Loan businesses. Golub Capital has worked hard to build a reputation as a fast, reliable provider of compelling financing solutions, and we believe this has inspired repeat clients and investors. Today, the firm has over 350 employees with lending offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco. For more information, please visit golubcapital.com.
About Genstar Capital
Genstar Capital (www.gencap.com) is a leading private equity firm that has been actively investing in high quality companies for more than 25 years. Based in San Francisco, Genstar works in partnership with its management teams and its network of strategic advisors to transform its portfolio companies into industry-leading businesses. Genstar currently has $9.7 billion of assets under management and targets investments focused on targeted segments of the software, industrial technology, healthcare, and financial services industries.
About Drillinginfo
Drillinginfo delivers business-critical insights to the energy, power, and commodities markets. Its state-of-the-art SaaS platform offers sophisticated technology, powerful analytics, and industry-leading data. Drillinginfo's solutions deliver value across upstream, midstream and downstream markets, empowering exploration and production (E&P), oilfield services, midstream, utilities, trading and risk, and capital markets companies to be more collaborative, efficient, and competitive. Drillinginfo delivers actionable intelligence over mobile, web, and desktop to analyze and reduce risk, conduct competitive benchmarking, and uncover market insights. Drillinginfo serves over 3,500 companies globally from its Austin, Texas, headquarters and has more than 675 employees. For more information visit drillinginfo.com.
SOURCE Golub Capital
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