NEP Group Announces Postponement of Initial Public Offering posted: 11/08/2015
NEP Group, one of the largest global outsourced provider of comprehensive live and broadcast production solutions, announced that it has postponed its previously announced initial public offering. NEPs board of directors, management and sponsor elected to postpone the offering as a result of unfavorable equity market conditions. NEP will continue to evaluate the timing for the proposed offering as market conditions develop.
Due to the recent volatility and uncertainty in the public markets, we have decided that this is not the right time for NEP to move forward with an IPO, stated Kevin Rabbitt, CEO of NEP Group, Inc. We remain a very healthy company with backing from a supportive financial investor, a strong growth strategy in place and great traction executing against that strategy. We are committed to continuing to execute our plan, and we do not believe this decision will impact our ability to meet our on-going growth goals. At NEP, it is business as usual as our team continues to focus on delivering superior service to our clients each and every day, Mr. Rabbitt added.
NEP provides the technology and know-how to enable clients to produce the worlds biggest live and broadcast events around the globe. The company is offering technical services for remote production, studio production, video display, host broadcasting and post production. NEPs team of over 1,500 employees are driven by passion and a focus on technical innovation, and together they have supported productions in over 65 countries on all seven continents. Headquartered in the United States, NEP has offices in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates and Australia.
The company's proposition to clients is simple: you provide the talent, and we'll handle the rest. NEP provides the supporting infrastructure for full audio and video capture, including 46 studios and 118 mobile production units. Their sports clients include the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, and the Olympic Games. On the entertainment side, NEP helps produce late-night television, awards shows, concert tours and music festivals.
Pre-IPO grade-score summary (reorganized, edited and summarized from the full S-1 reference Q1 15)
Its P/E (annualizing Q1) of -3.4 indicates very a heavy cash burn rate relative to market cap.
The company lost money in 13,14 and Q1 15.
Price to tangible book of -2, per share dilution -$24.20
Price to sales of 1.5
History
Founded in 1986, NEP Group was first to respond to an unmet need for higher service levels and advanced engineering expertise to support its clients live broadcasts. Over time, NEPG has developed a wide range of services and expanded its geographic footprint, building its scale and engineering capabilities.
The companys strategy of increasing its scale has been accelerated by strategic acquisitions, where it has a proven track record of effectively sourcing, evaluating and integrating attractive businesses and assets. Today, NEPG believes that the scale of its platform allows it to satisfy increasingly complex client requirements globally, while enabling the company to achieve attractive returns on capital.
NEPGs offices in 13 countries and experience in more than 65 countries provide it with a global platform from which it serviced over 1,700 clients and more than 10,700 events in 2014.
For the three months ended March 31, 2015 and the year ended December 31, 2014, NEPG generated total revenues of $103.1 million and $442.8 million, respectively, net losses of $35.9 million and $41.2 million, respectively, and adjusted EBITDA of $32.1 million and $145.1 million, respectively.
5% shareholders pre-IPO
Crestview Partners II GP, L.P. - 57.2%
Dividends
No dividends are planned.
Use of proceeds
NEPG expected to receive $191 million from its IPO and use it for the following:
$69.0 million of net proceeds from this offering to repay borrowings and related fees and expenses outstanding under its revolving credit facility, and $85.9 million of net proceeds from this offering to repay borrowings and related fees and expenses outstanding under its second lien term loan, with any remaining net proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes, including to fund acquisitions.
NEPG intends to use cash on hand and borrowings under its revolving credit facility to fund a portion of the CMI acquisition price.
Comment from Kevin Rabbitt on the IPO postponement
Well everyone at NEP internally has heard from me that this is not something that we have ever had to do as we have had financial sponsors dating back 20 years. And every time there has been a financial sponsor change someone in the industry has wanted to say that it is a bad thing for NEP. But ultimately it has been a good thing for the company and the clients. And we look at our ownership structure as secondary to what our strategy is which is to support clients and continue to grow the business and allow people to grow their careers.
There are multiple ways to have a financial structure to support that and fortunately we have a great financial structure now. And I can tell you that everyone at our company knows we are a healthy company, a great place to work, and with a 100% focus on supporting clients, and he continued: So nothing changes. We were never doing acquisitions to eventually do an IPO; that's a reverse logic. We were doing acquisitions to grow our worldwide network and to support our clients. And that doesn't change.
And Kevin Rabbitt concluded: What I can tell is not one person as we were looking at the IPO was exiting their ownership positions; not our financial sponsor, not our management team. This is not something that
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NEP Group Announces Postponement of Initial Public Offering posted: 11/08/2015 
