William Blair acted as exclusive financial advisor to e-Builder, in connection with its sale to Trimble. The transaction closed on February 2, 2018. William Blair is a leading technology advisor, having completed more than 35 software M&A transactions since 2015, representing nearly $18 billion in total transaction value, including 18 closed software M&A transactions since 2017.
Transaction Highlights
- Deep relationships and domain expertise: e-Builder recognized William Blair’s extensive knowledge and industry experience advising leading SaaS and vertical software companies, as well as strong relationships with—and unique insight into—the most aggressive and likely strategic and financial acquirers.
- Process and execution excellence: William Blair designed and managed an extremely competitive, highly efficient process with a targeted group of strategic and financial acquirers. Given e-Builder’s leading market position as a best-of-breed, mission-critical asset, William Blair produced a strong competitive dynamic, ultimately facilitating an excellent outcome for e-Builder’s founders and shareholders.
- Highly strategic transaction: The acquisition of e-Builder accelerates construction industry transformation with integrated program management for owners, program managers, and contractors across every phase of the construction lifecycle.
About the Companies
Founded in 1995, e-Builder is the leading provider of integrated, cloud-based construction program management software for top facility owners and the companies that act on their behalf. The company’s flagship product, e-Builder Enterprise, improves capital project execution, resulting in increased productivity and quality, reduced cost, and faster project delivery. Since its founding, e-Builder’s technology leadership and construction industry focus have helped thousands of global companies, government agencies, and healthcare and educational institutions manage billions of dollars in capital programs with solutions to improve plans and build and operate life cycles.
Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity, and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise life cycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware, and services are transforming a broad range of industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial, and transportation and logistics.