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Permira scored a three-times return from selling the bulk of its stake in online family history platform operator Ancestry.com to Silver Lake and fellow company shareholder, GIC Private, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, said a person familiar with the situation.
Ancestry.com said in a news release that the deal valued the Provo, Utah, company at about $2.6 billion.