Silver Lake and CPP Investments (with co-investors) Acquire Qualtrics

Qualtrics Acquires Clarabridge

July 29, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

Qualtrics agreed to acquire Clarabridge in a stock transaction valued at $1.125 billion, bringing Clarabridge's omnichannel conversational analytics and AI capabilities into the Qualtrics Experience Management (XM) platform. The acquisition expands Qualtrics' analytics capabilities for unstructured customer feedback (social, calls, chat, reviews) and is intended to accelerate growth and strengthen its position as the leading XM provider.

Silver Lake and Co-Investors Take Endeavor Private

March 24, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Silver Lake, in partnership with the Endeavor management team and several co-investors (including Mubadala, DFO Management, Lexington Partners, Goldman Sachs Asset Management funds, and CPP Investments), completed a take-private acquisition of Endeavor Group Holdings for $27.50 per share. The transaction consolidates ownership, rebrands the portfolio of representation businesses as WME Group, and positions the company for long-term value creation across talent representation, IP, content and sports assets.

Silver Lake and GIC Acquire Zuora for $1.7 Billion

October 17, 2024

Cloud & SaaS

Silver Lake, in partnership with an affiliate of GIC, acquired Zuora, Inc. for $10.00 per share in a transaction valuing the company at approximately $1.7 billion; Zuora will become a privately held company. The deal, approved by Zuora stockholders, keeps Founder and CEO Tien Tzuo in place (he rolled over a majority of his ownership) and positions the company to pursue long‑term growth as a private business.

Clearlake Capital Completes Acquisition of Quest Software from Francisco Partners

February 2, 2022

Cybersecurity

Clearlake Capital Group completed its acquisition of Quest Software from Francisco Partners, making Clearlake the majority shareholder and partnering with Quest’s existing management team to pursue a buy-and-build strategy. The investment aims to accelerate Quest’s cloud/SaaS adoption, expand its identity-centric cybersecurity, data intelligence, and IT operations management offerings, and drive growth organically and through M&A.

Silver Lake Acquires 51% Stake in Altera from Intel

September 15, 2025

Manufacturing

Silver Lake has acquired a 51% majority stake in Altera Corporation from Intel, with Intel retaining a 49% interest, in an approximately $8.75 billion transaction that establishes Altera as an independent, pure‑play FPGA provider. The investment provides Altera with capital and operational independence to accelerate R&D, expand its software and hardware stack (including the Agilex family), and scale into key end markets such as data centers, telecommunications, aerospace and industrial automation.

Rockbridge Growth Equity Invests in Quartile Digital

September 29, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Detroit-based private equity firm Rockbridge Growth Equity has made an investment in Quartile Digital to recapitalize the company and fund direct sales and marketing expansion, product enhancements and further international growth. Quartile is an AI/ML-driven advertising optimization and spend-management SaaS platform used by brands and sellers across Amazon and other online marketplaces; the deal closed on September 29, 2020, with CG Petsky Prunier advising Quartile.