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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR to acquire Cloudera, Inc.

Announced Jun 1, 2021 · Closed Oct 8, 2021

Deal value$5.30BEV $4.85B
Premium24.0%To unaffected price
EV / Adj. EBITDA—5.6x EV / Revenue
ConsiderationAll cash$16.00 per share

Transaction

Acquirer
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR
Target
Cloudera, Inc.
Buyer type
Private equity
Offer price per share
$16.00
Enterprise value
$4.85B
Status
Closed Oct 8, 2021

Deal protections

Break fee (target pays)
$172M · 3.2%
Reverse fee (buyer pays)
$291M · 5.5%
Go-shop
30-day go-shop
Financing
Committed · JPMorgan, BofA Securities, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Barclays +2

Advisors

To the acquirer
GCA, BofA Securities, William Blair, Perella Weinberg, TD Cowen, JPMorgan
To the target
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley fee
$58.0M

Sector context · Tech

Comparable deals
31 in the prior 24 months
Premium
24.0% vs. 33.0% sector median
EV / Adj. EBITDA
Sector median 17.3x
Break fee
3.2% vs. 3.0% sector median

Timeline

  1. AnnouncedJun 1, 2021
  2. Proxy filedJul 7, 2021
  3. Definitive proxyJul 19, 2021
  4. Shareholder voteAug 25, 2021
  5. ClosedOct 8, 2021

Valuation · fairness opinions

Analyst price targets$12.66$14.73
Offer $16.00

Implied value per Cloudera, Inc. share by analysis, from Morgan Stanley.

Sources
  • 8-K (EX-99) · Jun 1, 2021
  • 8-K · Jun 1, 2021

Adj. EBITDA is operating income + D&A + impairment, restructuring, deal costs and stock compensation, less any large gain on a sale, last twelve months, from the target's filings. Calculated by Castle, so it can differ from a bank's adjusted figure.

Prepared with Castle from public SEC EDGAR filings. Figures are extracted automatically; verify against the source documents. Not investment advice.