Vector Disease Control International

The Deal

Bought By

Jay Davis and Jason Pananos

Year

2011

Vehicle

Nashton Partners, raised 2008, backed by Pacific Lake Partners, The Cambria Group and Tom & Dave

Kind

Physical operations

A Little Rock mosquito-control company, grown by fourteen add-on acquisitions under its searcher-CEOs.

This trade has its own guide: Buying a Pest Control Business, which carries what a buyer checks in it and what it sells for.

What Happened Next

Sold to Rentokil in 2017 at roughly $47M of revenue, then the largest North American deal Rentokil had done since Steritech.

The searchers held it 6 years, from 2011 to 2017.

Bought at exit by Rentokil Initial, whose page carries that firm's own announcement of it.

Backed by the Same Firms

Method & Source

This record is double-sourced: it joined when the purchase and, where the company has traded on, the exit could both be read in primary accounts rather than inferred.

• The acquirer's announcement rentokil-initial.com
• A third party's record of the deal jimsteinsharpe.com
• Pacific Lake Partners' own account, The index host's company page, which names both beside its 2011 investment. pacificlake.com
• Pacific Lake Partners' own account, The index host's featured page, which says the two invested in the company through search in 2011. pacificlake.com
• The Cambria Group's own account cambriagroup.com
• Tom & Dave's own account tom-dave.com