M&A Deal Summary

Calian Acquires MDA - Nuclear Assets

On March 5, 2024, Calian acquired engineering company MDA - Nuclear Assets from MDA Space

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Calian’s 2nd transaction in the Engineering sector.
  • This is Calian’s 13th transaction in Canada.
  • This is Calian’s 10th transaction in Ontario.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2024-03-05
Target MDA - Nuclear Assets
Sector Engineering
Buyer(s) Calian
Sellers(s) MDA Space
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

MDA - Nuclear Assets

Brampton, Ontario, Canada
MDA's Nuclear Assets offers complex project planning and management for large nuclear outages and refurbishment projects, including experience in nuclear outage tooling. MDA's Nuclear Assets, based in Brampton, Ontario.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Calian

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Category Company
Founded 1982
Sector Information Technology
Employees5,000
Revenue 747M CAD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Calian is a provider of quality assurance services to both the private and public sectors across Canada. Calian was founded in 1982 and is based in Ottawa, Ontario.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 17 of 19
Sector: Engineering M&A 2 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 2
State: Ontario M&A 10 of 10
Country: Canada M&A 13 of 14
Year: 2024 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-11-09 Decisive Group

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Decisive Group is an IT infrastructure and cyber security services business that designs, builds, and maintains enterprise IT infrastructure and hybrid cloud and manages and protects data. Its customer base primarily includes Canadian government departments and agencies and some well-established commercial and enterprise clients. Decisive Group was established in 2001 and is based in Ottawa, Ontario.

Buy CA$75M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-05-10 Mabway

Dorset, United Kingdom

Mabway is a provider in the management of large-scale defence role-playing environments that simulate real-world operational environments and provides technical engineering education for naval and maritime communities. Mabway was founded in 2004 and is based in Dorset, United Kingdom.

Buy CA$41M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

MDA Space

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Category Company
Founded 1969
Sector Technology Hardware
Revenue 1.1B CAD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

MDA Space is a space technology company delivers space robotics, radar satellite technology and satellite components. MDA Space was founded in 1969 and is based in Brampton, Ontario.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Engineering M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: Ontario M&A 1 of 1
Country: Canada M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2024 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-08-31 SatixFy Space Systems

Farnborough, United Kingdom

SatixFy Space Systems provides digital payload services.

Buy $40M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2025-04-01 SatixFy

Rehovot, Israel

SatixFy develops end-to-end next-generation satellite communications systems, including satellite payloads, user terminals and modems, based on powerful chipsets that it develops in house. SatixFy’s products include modems that feature Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Fully Electronically Steered Multi Beam Antennas (ESMA) that support the advanced communications standard DVB-S2X. SatixFy was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel.

Buy $193M