Marlin Equity Partners Completes Majority Growth Investment in Learning Pool
June 16, 2021
Marlin Equity Partners has agreed to a majority growth investment in Learning Pool, acquiring the shareholding of Carlyle Cardinal Ireland to support the eLearning provider's continued organic and inorganic growth. The investment will back product and geographic expansion, additional acquisitions and hiring (Learning Pool currently has ~260 employees and plans to add 100 more), while Learning Pool's management has reinvested alongside the transaction.
- Buyers
- Marlin Equity Partners
- Targets
- Learning Pool
- Sellers
- Carlyle Cardinal Ireland
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Transaction Type
- Growth capital
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