M&A Deal Summary

Atheros Communications Acquires Ubicom

On March 7, 2012, Atheros Communications acquired technology hardware company Ubicom from Investcorp

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Atheros Communications’ 1st transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is Atheros Communications’ 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Atheros Communications’ 2nd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-03-07
Target Ubicom
Sector Technology Hardware
Buyer(s) Atheros Communications
Sellers(s) Investcorp
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Ubicom

San Jose, California, United States
Ubicom provides system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, gateways, appliances and other network nodes. These products are used in applications ranging from voice-over-IP and online gaming, to video conferencing and print serving.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Atheros Communications

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Semiconductors
Employees1,778
DESCRIPTION

Atheros Communications, Inc. is a developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless communications products. Atheros combines its wireless systems expertise with high-performance radio frequency (RF), mixed signal and digital semiconductor design skills to provide highly integrated chipsets that are manufacturable on low-cost, standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 4
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 4
State: California M&A 2 of 3
Country: United States M&A 3 of 4
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-09-08 Intellon

Orlando, Florida, United States

Intellon Corp. is a designer and marketer of integrated circuits (ICs) for powerline communications, providing HomePlug® - compliant and other powerline ICs for home networking, networked entertainment, commercial and Smart Grid applications.

Buy $244M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-08-06 Ikanos Communications

Fremont, California, United States

Ikanos is a provider of low-power advanced broadband semiconductor and software products for the digital home. The company’s multi-mode VDSL/ADSLx, network processor and other offerings power access infrastructure and customer premises equipment for many of the world’s leading network equipment manufacturers and telecommunications service providers.

Buy $47M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Investcorp

New York, New York, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Asset Manager
Founded 1982
PE ASSETS 53.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Investcorp is a global investment group focused on a variety of investment disciplines. Practice areas include private equity in North America and Western Europe, hedge funds, US real estate, technology investments, and Middle Eastern private equity. Within North America/Europe private equity, Investcorp targets market leaders with proven track records. It looks to invest $15 to $50 million in companies with revenues of $10 to $250 million. Investcorp's technology group sponsors growth-oriented control investments in the tech sector. Investcorp's Middle East practice focuses on buyout/build opportunities in North Africa and the Gulf Region. Target sectors include services, infrastructure, manufacturing, and energy. Investcorp was formed in 1982 and is based in Manama, Bahrain.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 51 of 111
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 4 of 5
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 29 of 49
State: California M&A 6 of 12
Country: United States M&A 35 of 63
Year: 2012 M&A 2 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-01-31 InnerWireless

Richardson, Texas, United States

InnerWireless, Inc. enables seamless wireless coverage inside large commercial, healthcare and government buildings through a unified broadband distribution platform and provides a real-time location system (RTLS) that provides wireless, high-assurance location tracking over RFID for hospital and corporate assets. InnerWireless' scalable RF platform is engineered to support a full range of wireless services and is future ready so enterprises can add new wireless technologies without disruption.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-03-19 GL Education

Brentford, United Kingdom

GL Education is an educational multimedia company, publishing innovative, curriculum-based resources for the UK and abroad. It currently supplies more than ninety-five per cent of schools in the UK and exports to more than thirty countries internationally, with a catalogue of over 800 software and hardware products. GL Education was founded in 1980 and is based in Brentford, United Kingdom.

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