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| Industry | Private equity |
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| Founded | 2013 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Products | Investments, private equity funds, leveraged buyouts |
| Website | regent.co |
Regent Companies is a multi-sector private equity firm based in Los Angeles, California founded by Michael Reinstein. [1] Many of Regent's investments have been in the software, technology and media space.
Selected Investments
Regent's first acquisition was in 2013, when the firm acquired the Rovi Entertainment Store over-the-top video platform from Rovi Corporation. [2] The firm later purchased the CinemaNow video business from Best Buy. Regent sold these businesses to FilmOn in 2015. [3] [4][5]
In September of 2013, Regent and its partners acquired control of Skinit, a San Diego based e-commerce company from private equity firm Ares Management.
Regent acquired Halco Rock Tools from Caterpillar Inc. in September 2014.
Regent acquired travel technology provider Pegasus Solutions in 2014 in a transaction that included divesting the Pegasus distribution services business to HIG Capital. [6] [7] [8] [9]
Regent acquired Silicon Valley technology company NexTag in March 2015 from a consortia of investors led by Deutsche Bank.
In October 2015, Regent purchased the catalog and e-commerce company Lillian Vernon Corporation and mail order business Current, Inc. from Minnesota- based Taylor Corporation. [10] [11] [12]
Regent's holdings also include magazine publisher HistoryNet and the military and defense publishing company Sightline Media Group, which it bought from Tegna in 2016. [13] [14] [15] Sightline Media Group publishes Armed Forces Journal, Defense News, Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and Federal Times.
References
- ^ http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=244090512
- ^ http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/target-ticket-launches-new-digital-video-service-1200617389/
- ^ http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/filmon-buys-cinemanow-1201689797/
- ^ http://www.digitaltveurope.net/490092/filmon-buys-movie-and-tv-store-cinemanow/
- ^ http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/filmon-reels-cinemanow/396889
- ^ https://skift.com/2014/10/22/pegasus-solutions-spins-off-reservations-business-to-regent-equity-partners/
- ^ https://www.pehub.com/2014/11/h-i-g-buys-pegasus-distribution-services-unit/
- ^ http://www.hotelnewsresource.com/article80917.html
- ^ https://www.tnooz.com/article/pegasus/
- ^ http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-lillian-vernon-dies-20151215-story.html
- ^ http://articles.philly.com/2015-12-17/news/69094455_1_handbags-mount-vernon-new-york-city
- ^ http://gazette.com/current-sold-to-equity-firm/article/1564944
- ^ http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2016/03/22/heres-how-much-the-tegna-ceo-earned-in-2015.html
- ^ http://www.bryensblog.com/#!blog/c1yuo/tag/Regent-Equity
- ^ http://breakingdefense.com/2016/03/day-of-reckoning-defense-news-dod-service-papers-sold-to-venture-capitalist/
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