M&A Deal Summary

Camtek Acquires Printar

On May 18, 2009, Camtek acquired electronics company Printar from Apax

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Camtek’s 1st transaction in the Electronics sector.
  • This is Camtek’s 1st transaction in Israel.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2009-05-18
Target Printar
Sector Electronics
Buyer(s) Camtek
Sellers(s) Apax
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Printar

Rehovot, Israel
Provider of direct digital printing equipment and consumables for the Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) manufacturing and assembly industry.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Camtek

Migdal Ha'emek, Israel

Category Company
Founded 1987
Sector Semiconductors
Employees656
Revenue 429M USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Camtek designs, develops, manufactures, and markets automatic optical inspection (AOI) systems and related products. Camtek was founded in 1987 and is based in Migdal HaEmek, Israel.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 2
Sector: Electronics M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Israel M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2023-09-18 FormFactor - FRT Metrology Business

Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

FormFactor's FRT Metrology Business provides high-precision metrology solutions for the Advanced Packaging and Silicon Carbide markets.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Apax

London, United Kingdom

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1981
PE ASSETS 77.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Apax Partners is a mega-sized private equity investment group, operating across the United States, Europe, Israel and Asia. Broad industry sectors of interest include tech & telecom, media, retail & consumer, healthcare, financial services, and business services. Apax will consider both minority and majority investment positions and prefers companies with strong market positions and growth potential. The Firm generally pursues platform acquisitions valued from $1 to $5 billion. Apax Partners was formed in 1981 and is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 38 of 173
Sector: Electronics M&A 1 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 14 of 60
Country: Israel M&A 1 of 11
Year: 2009 M&A 3 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-03-04 PCM Uitgevers BV

Amsterdam, Netherlands

PCM Uitgevers B.V. is a Dutch publishing company. It produces newspapers, trade books, and educational and professional publications.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-08-01 Bankrate

New York, New York, United States

Bankrate is an online publisher, aggregator, and distributor of personal finance content. The Company's vision is to help consumers Maximize Your Money when they borrow, save or invest. With this in mind, RATE aggregates large scale audiences of in-market consumers by providing them with proprietary, fully researched, comprehensive, independent and objective personal finance and related editorial content across multiple vertical categories including credit cards, mortgages, deposits, senior care and other categories, such as personal and auto loans retirement, and taxes. RATE's flagship sites CreditCards.com, Bankrate.com, and Caring.com are leading destinations in each of their respective verticals and connect their vast audiences with financial service and senior care providers and other contextually relevant advertisers. RATE also owns and operates a number of specialist sites, apps and social platforms, including NextAdvisor.com, The Points Guy, Interest.com, Quizzle.com and Walla.by. Bankrate also develops and provides content, tools, web services and co-branded websites to over 100 online partners, including Yahoo!, CNBC and MarketWatch. In addition, Bankrate licenses editorial content to leading news organizations such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Bankrate was founded in 1976 and is based in New York.

Buy $571M