M&A Deal Summary

Agilent Acquires Aurora SFC Systems

On August 31, 2012, Agilent acquired chemicals company Aurora SFC Systems

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Agilent’s 1st transaction in the Chemicals sector.
  • This is Agilent’s 16th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Agilent’s 10th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-08-31
Target Aurora SFC Systems
Sector Chemicals
Buyer(s) Agilent
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Aurora SFC Systems

Redwood City, California, United States
Aurora SFC Systems, Inc. is a provider of supercritical fluid chromatography products for laboratory research and development.

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Buyer

Agilent

Santa Clara, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1999
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees17,600
Revenue 6.8B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Agilent's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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Agilent is a producer of solutions that includes instruments, software, services, and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow. Agilent's life sciences and applied markets business provide application-focused solutions that include instruments and software that enable customers to identify, quantify, and analyze the physical and biological properties of substances and products, as well as enable customers in the clinical and life sciences research areas to interrogate samples at the molecular level. Agilent was founded in 1999 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 19 of 38
Sector (Chemicals) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 16 of 35
State (California) 10 of 13
Country (United States) 16 of 28
Year (2012) 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-05-17 Dako AS

Glostrup, Denmark

Dako AS is a global leader in tissue based cancer diagnostics. Dako provides reagents, instruments and software for high-quality cancer diagnosis and efficient laboratory processes.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-11-01 Keysight Technologies

Santa Rosa, California, United States

Keysight Technologies is a measurement company that provides electronic design and test solutions to the communications and electronics industries. Keysight provides electronic measurement instruments and systems and related software, software design tools, and related services that are used in the design, development, manufacture, installation, deployment, and operation of electronic equipment. Related services include start-up assistance, instrument productivity, application services, and instrument calibration and repair. Keysight Technologies was formed in 1939 and is based in Santa Rosa, California.

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