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KORE says Searchlight and Abry affiliates completed take-private acquisition

July 21, 2026 primary Manager profile

Summary: KORE announced the successful completion of its acquisition by affiliates of Searchlight Capital Partners and Abry Partners. The current KORE source says KORE common stock would cease trading and be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange after completion.

Why it matters: The update may matter to due-diligence readers as a public closing and ownership-status milestone for ABRY's communications and IoT-related transaction activity, while the source should not be used to infer transaction-vehicle exposure, financing source, governance quality, valuation quality, future returns, suitability, or investment merit.

9AT filing context: Public ADV/profile context reviewed by 9AT maps ABRY Partners LLC and related ABRY adviser entities to CRD 161153 / 161154 and SEC files 801-74146 / 801-74147, with roughly $15.0 billion in reported regulatory AUM/profile scale and 36 private funds. Use only as adviser/platform identity context; KORE completion, delisting, sponsor/backer, timing, and transaction mechanics must remain attributed to KORE.

Summary

KORE announced on July 21, 2026 that it completed its acquisition by affiliates of Searchlight Capital Partners and Abry Partners. The current KORE source says the completion starts KORE’s new chapter as a private company backed by Searchlight and Abry.

KORE also says its common stock would cease trading prior to market open and be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. This is a completion milestone distinct from the earlier agreement-stage announcement, which KORE had published in February 2026.

Why it matters

For due-diligence readers, completion matters because it distinguishes an announced take-private agreement from a closed ownership-status change. The item is a public signal for ABRY’s activity in communications infrastructure and IoT connectivity, and it gives readers a concrete date and source package for tracking future KORE, Searchlight, and Abry disclosures.

The signal is bounded by the issuer source. KORE supports the completion, named sponsor/backer language, private-company status, stock-trading cessation, and NYSE delisting language. It does not identify a specific ABRY fund, transaction vehicle, ownership percentage, financing source, portfolio exposure, post-closing governance, operating outcome, expected returns, suitability, or investment merit.

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9AT filing context

Public ADV/profile context reviewed by 9AT maps ABRY Partners LLC and related ABRY adviser entities to CRD 161153 / 161154 and SEC files 801-74146 / 801-74147, with roughly $15.0 billion in reported regulatory AUM/profile scale and 36 private funds. That context is useful only for adviser/platform identity.

No 13F or Form 5500 context is recommended. This item concerns a sponsor-backed take-private completion, not a public-equity-holdings update or a retirement-plan/service-provider relationship. Filing context should not be used to infer fund exposure, ownership percentage, financing source, transaction economics, valuation quality, governance quality, performance, future returns, suitability, or investment merit.

What to watch

Watch for future KORE, Searchlight, Abry, regulatory, or financing disclosures that clarify post-closing governance, transaction vehicle, ownership structure, financing terms, operating priorities, or follow-on portfolio positioning. Future updates should continue to distinguish KORE-attributed company statements from independent validation and broad adviser-platform identity context.

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