Houlihan Lokey Advises Kpler

Houlihan Lokey is pleased to announce that Kpler, a leading provider of data and analytics to the global energy, commodities, and maritime markets, has received a minority investment from Five Arrows and Insight Partners. The transaction closed on June 1, 2022.

Headquartered in Brussels, Kpler offers a best-of-breed data and analytics platform providing mission-critical insights across the energy and commodities value chain to facilitate sustainable and efficient trading and decision-making. The company serves over 450 global blue-chip customers active in the commodity market, including IOCs, NOCs, trading houses, financial institutions, and utility and maritime players.

With its new partners, Kpler has ambitions to further fulfil its mission to facilitate efficient and sustainable trade within physical commodities, the energy transition, and adjacent markets. To achieve its strategic objectives, the company will rely on organic and inorganic growth, with more acquisitions being considered. It also intends to hire over 100 staff in the coming months.

With assets under management of approximately €4.9 billion, Five Arrows corporate private equity is part of Rothschild & Co’s Merchant Banking business, which manages over €18 billion globally, with offices in Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, and Luxembourg. Five Arrows focuses on investing in companies with highly defensible market positions, strong management teams, business models with high visibility of organic unit volume growth and strong unit economics, and multiple operational levers that can be used to unlock latent value. Sectors are limited to data and software, technology-enabled business services, and healthcare sectors.

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and internet startup and scaleup companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. With the closing of the firm's recent fundraise, Fund XII, as of February 24, 2022, Insight Partners' regulatory assets under management is over $90 billion. Insight Partners has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv, and Palo Alto. Insight's mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Insight Partners meets great software leaders where they are in their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO.

Houlihan Lokey served as the exclusive financial advisor to Kpler and its shareholders and assisted in initiating, structuring, and negotiating the transaction on their behalf. This transaction further enhances Houlihan Lokey’s extensive track record in the data, analytics, and software sectors.