Liberty Hall Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defense industry, announced the acquisition of Comply365 Holdings, Inc., a leading global provider of operational content and compliance management solutions supporting the aerospace and rail industries. The sellers include investment funds managed by Luminate Capital Partners. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"We are very excited for Comply365 to join our portfolio of businesses as our seventh platform acquisition," said Rowan Taylor, Liberty Hall's founding and Managing Partner. "Ongoing digitalization in the aviation and rail markets is driving demand for tailored, efficiency-centric software solutions, and Comply365 is a leading solution provider solving core pain points across the entire operational content and compliance management process."
Comply365 operates a software as a service (SaaS) business model and represents Liberty Hall's seventh platform acquisition and second SaaS investment. The transaction advances Liberty Hall's digitalization strategy to build an integrated, scaled provider of operational content and compliance management solutions for the aerospace industry.
"We are excited to partner with management and provide Comply365 the necessary resources to continue to build upon its differentiated product offering, execute on its global expansion opportunities and solidify its position as a market leader in the operational content and compliance management arena for the transportation industry," said Jack Nadal, Partner, Liberty Hall.
Comply365's existing management team, led by CEO Tom Samuel, will remain in their roles following the acquisition. "We are excited to partner with Liberty Hall in order to accelerate implementation of our strategic product vision and execute on our key go-to-market growth plans," said Mr. Samuel. "We look forward to leveraging Liberty Hall's resources, relationships and global reach within the aerospace industry to continue to bring critical operational content and compliance management solutions to our customers," he added.
Founded in 2007, Beloit, WI-based Comply365 provides SaaS-based, mobile-first, proprietary, mission-critical, enterprise content management solutions solving core pain points across the entire content management lifecycle, including authoring, compliance tracking, workflow management and targeted document distribution. Comply365 delivers key digitalization-enabling solutions to over 50 blue chip global airlines and rail companies.