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Private Equity and Investment Banking SPRING 2010 aggrandisement Partners FleetCor A 1. Summarize the proposed transaction Summit Partners proposes to FleetCor Technologies (later preferred as FleetCor or the Comp all) an investment funds into FleetCor for the total amount of $44. 9 jillion in ingathering for a post transaction monomania of 54. 2% in the Comp any and coming down to 46% ownership in the ac gild after newly created assembly line options for management equivalent to 15% ownership in the companionship has been completely executed and fully diluted.This investment is in the form of convertible preferred s focus with an 8% accrued interest, compounding annually. As the transaction come through, Summits prefer stock testament be treated contact-footing in liquidity with the other $37. 5 million of existing preferred stock. The proceeds from Summits investment go forth be use as fol get- issues $9. 0 million will be utilise to redeem part of a $15 million subo rdinated debt held by current investors.The remaining $6 million of this debt will be converted by the current investors into the same strip of prefer stock which Summit proposes. About $16. 6 million will be apply as an upfront cash to buy back FleetCors septette Super Licensees The remaining $19. 3 million will be used as a pla lettuceary on the job(p) capital for FleetCor to fund its increment avocation and to buy back any other potential licensees. 2. discuss five rough key investment strengths FleetCors management team in truth well-performed management team consisting of Very exalted quality profile and experienced CEO, Ron Clarke, who has brought FleetCor back on track after just 18 months of working in the telephoner. Other executives who call for many experiences and a lot of association in the industry including H. Steve Smith, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing Tommy Andrews, Senior VP of surgical process and Scott Ruoff, Senior VP of Business Development. FleetCor has a senior high schoolly differential agate line dodging leading a genuinely competitive business as followings middle(a) Market Focus plumping commercialise for development with very small-minded potential competitors and high barriers to entry Local Market Distribution FleetCor has created a electronic ne devilrk of local branches with a complete staff employees including a general manager Semi-Exclusive Merchant Acceptance Ne cardinalrk FleetCor limits the size of merchant network to provide greater traffic volume to participating retailers. Highly realised market shares in the highly potential and continued return market FleetCor has 90,000 fleet customers across its entire strategy comprised especially of four vauntingly national accounts such as Sears, UPS, Aramark and National Line Service and all over 500,000 active tableholders. ? FleetCor provided its customers the cost-saving and customized information report to really please the customers and make them high reluctance to switch to new card network providers, leading to low customer churn. High rough-cut profit moulding (in case of gross r purgeue report) averagely 5%, double comparabilityd to other regular mention card issuing companies or its big competitors in high-end market, however, it has still gained highly growing market share because of its unique and differential business strategy. 3. Discuss five investment concerns FleetCor is still missing a financial expert who non only has experiences and knowledge in the industry but overly has power to draw fully effective projection for a long-terminus growth by utensiling a stable financial system ( Suggest Hiring a highly effective and experienced CFO. ? High projected improvements after the acquisition. The company should be a little more(prenominal) conservative due to the particular that there are al vogues some unexpected risks associating with the implication of a new centralized system. Suggest the c ompany should project in the more conservative way and should establish some preventive control procedures to exterminate these risks before really testing the centralized system to avoid any unexpected damages and privationes. ? FleetCor has not yet settle the closing agreements with the septette Super Licensees for acquiring them, creating some sources of unstable and going concern business ( Suggest the company should be more specific and aggressive go dealing with the licenses to make the final agreements. Higher gas prices result in a larger A/R financing cost and also lead to a higher(prenominal) bad debt expense, even though the net revenue might still be the same ( Suggest implement some forms of hedging strategies against the increases in gas prices such as going long on a call option at a specific gas price which might materially increase the A/R financing cost and bad debt expenses. ? FleetCor currently has weak managerial reporting system ( Suggest bringing in some more IT consultants and programmers to create a more effective managerial and financial system while working along with a CFO who is a financial expert. . Using Exhibit 4B evaluate the proposed acquisitions. Would you recommend purchasing all of the licenses? why or why not? Explain Briefly Overall, the proposed acquisitions yield the company a combined entity with much(prenominal) better performance in term of profitability such as New combined gross margin is 5% higher than the base only. EBIT margin is almost 3. 75 time higher than the base only. EBITDA margin is over 1. 5 times higher than the base only.I recommend FleetCor only acquire 5 in effect operated Licensees out of the seven ones including the ones in the areas of Houston, Carolina, Mississippi, Baton Rouge, and Atlanta because the other two which are locating in Chicago and Tampa are inefficient in term of profitability. Licensee in Chicago will yield a loss of EBITDA and the one in Tampa yield only $83,000 of EBI TDA which is very small compare to the cost of acquiring this licensee. 5. Look at the Transaction Multiples Analysis in Exhibit 5d and 6. Analyze the comparables (Exhibit 6) a.Would you recommend using all the comparables listed? Would you exclude any of the comparables? Explain your answers. I would not recommend using all the comparables listed. I would exclude all of the comparables from group of credit card issuers because FleetCor has been operate its business as a merchant card processor which is different from the credit card industry. Basic principle for valuation using industry comparables is that we have to use comparables for the group of companies in the same industry with the valued company.I might want to keep the comparables for the group of other transaction processors. finished my observation, I find that Ceridian which is in the same industry with FleetCor has the most sympathetic Enterprise Value/Revenue Ratio and Enterprise Value/EBITDA with the company (lead ing to that Ceridian would be a vertical indicator for valuation of FleetCor b. Based on the comparables how would you value the proposed acquisitions of the licensees? What do you think of the multiples proposed in exhibit 5d?Basing on comparables info of Ceridian, I would value the proposed acquisitions of the licensees at 13. 1xEBITDA. I think the multiples proposed 3. 9x in 2001 and 3. 3x in 2002 in exhibit 5d are way under the multiple of Ceridian, and even much lower when compare to the industry average 16. 9x and 15x accordingly. In general, if the final transaction is completed as proposed, the company will be much better off, and even better if the company exclude the acquisition of the two licensees in Chicago and Tampa.In addition, if all of the big seven licensees do not accept the acquisitions at this proposed multiples, Summit might suggest the FleetCors management to raise these multiples and deal specific case to case with from each one of the licensee. 6. pick out the acquisitions take place on December, 31, 2001. Value Fleet or using the DCF methodology. Use Exhibit 5a, 5b and 5c to complete the valuation. Make assumptions as needed. Assume a market premium of 4. 5%. Make sure you put forward and explain your assumptions. I will use the equity beta of Ceridian (? =0. 9) to train cost of equity for FleetCor because the two companies are considered comparables. Assume the market has been operating efficiency, and according to CAPM RE = RF + ? *MRP (whereas MRP market risk premium= 4. 5%, and RF = 4. 27%, 5-year Treasury interest rate). So, RE = 4. 27% + 0. 79*4. 5% = 7. 825%. Another point of view, the company has projected to have very high growth 15%,18%,19%,19%,16% in consecutive five old age so that Summit Partners may have to require more return on equity compensating for more risks if this projection failed. I assume that usher out rate to be reasonably 18%. The below is my valuation financial Year Ending December 31, 2001 CY 2002P 2003P 2004P 2005P EBITDA in 2006 52,349 Exit Multiple 8 Terminal Value (Firm Value at Exit) 418,792 Discounted Terminal Value 183,058 essential Present Value to Summit 226,602 Discount Rate using 18% 7.Look at Exhibit 7. What do you think of the multiples used? What do you think of the Irrs? Explain and take for your analysis. I think the multiples used are reasonable , even though, these multiples might be much below the average and the median of the industry overall, Summit should be conservative for an start multiple of 8 in case there are some unexpected outcomes happened after the acquisitions and from them make the projection failed. The IRRs are considered high profitable.Even in the worst case scenario, the EBITDA exit multiple is equal 6, Summit still make 23. 8 % in IRR which is over 3 times compares to the market at 7. 825%. 8. At this time would you support this transaction? Why or Why not explain . I would fully support this transaction because of the following reasons 1) FleetCors management teams with high profile, experienced, and knowledge executives will make the companys high projection come true. ) The proposed acquisitions of the big seven licensees has been settled in basis, and soon become a very good deal for the beginning of this investment. 3) Base on my valuation inclined using the data in Summits projections, the NPV (Net Present Value) is way off the positive number showing that this is a very good project. 4) Even though, Summit might approach a conservative way to evaluate the EBITDA exit multiple of 8, the investment still yield a 31. 8% in IRR over the period of five years.