M&A Deal Summary

NeuStar Acquires Quova

On November 5, 2010, NeuStar acquired internet software and services company Quova

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is NeuStar’s 3rd transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is NeuStar’s 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is NeuStar’s 3rd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2010-11-05
Target Quova
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) NeuStar
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Arma Partners (Financial)

Target

Quova

Mountain View, California, United States
Quova, Inc. provides online geolocation database provider. Quova helps online retailers, government agencies, and other organizations determine where their website visitors are located.

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Buyer

NeuStar

Reston, Virginia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1996
Sector Information Services
Revenue 1.1B USD (2015)
DESCRIPTION

NeuStar is a global information services provider driving the connected world forward with trusted, holistic identity resolution. The company serves many of the world’s brands to grow and guard their businesses with the most complete understanding of how to connect people, places, and things. The combination of Neustar’s unique, accurate and real-time identity system and its cloud-based workflow solutions empower businesses to make actionable, precise, and valuable decisions across marketing, risk, IT/security, network & operations departments. As the current sole provider to the U.S. Number Portability Administration Center, Neustar also facilitates the routing of all telephone call and text messages in the U.S. NeuStar was formed in 1996 and is based in Sterling, Virginia.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 17
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 3 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 13
State: California M&A 3 of 5
Country: United States M&A 6 of 15
Year: 2010 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-07-12 BrowserMob

Portland, Oregon, United States

BrowserMob LLC is a provider of cloud based load testing and monitoring services.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-04-21 Numbering Solutions business - Evolving Systems

United States

Numbering Solutions Assets comprises local number portability (LNP) and wireless number portability (WNP), and software products that simplify operators’ operations support systems (OSS) architectures by mitigating cost.

Buy $39M