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Mercury Acquires Echotek

On July 12, 2005, Mercury acquired electrical equipment company Echotek for 49M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Mercury’s 1st transaction in the Electrical Equipment sector.
  • This is Mercury’s 8th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Mercury’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Mercury’s 1st transaction in Alabama.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2005-07-12
Target Echotek
Sector Electrical Equipment
Buyer(s) Mercury
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 49M USD

Target

Echotek

Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Echotek is a produces a portfolio of board-level products for analog-to-digital conversion (A/D), digital-to-analog conversion (D/A), high- performance input/output (I/O), and specialized digital signal processing known as digital receivers. This functionality is present in "sensor-based" computing systems for defense applications such as radar and signals intelligence. These technologies are also key components in commercial systems for medical scanners, large-scale physics experiments, and electronic test instrumentation.

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Buyer

Mercury

Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Category Company
Founded 1981
Sector Electronics
Employees2,364
Revenue 835M USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Mercury is a high-tech commercial provider of secure and sensor processing subsystems that power critical defense and intelligence applications. Mercury was formed in 1981 and is based in Andover, Massachusetts.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 17
Sector: Electrical Equipment M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 15
State: Alabama M&A 1 of 2
Country: United States M&A 1 of 16
Year: 2005 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 8 of 11
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-01-12 LNX

Salem, New Hampshire, United States

LNX Corporation is a provider of high performance solutions used in critical Defense and Homeland Security applications. Servicing domestic and international markets, LNX produces a market-leading portfolio of board-level products including microwave and millimeter wave integrated assemblies and components, MMIC-based transceivers, converters, and millimeter wave power amplifiers and digital products (digital receivers, DRFM, DIFM). These technologies are key components in defense applications such as radar and signal intelligence.

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