M&A Deal Summary

Coherent Acquires Oclaro Switzerland .

On September 12, 2013, Coherent acquired semiconductors company Oclaro Switzerland . from Oclaro for 115M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Coherent’s 2nd transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Coherent’s 2nd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Coherent’s 1st transaction in Switzerland.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2013-09-12
Target Oclaro Switzerland .
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Coherent
Sellers(s) Oclaro
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 115M USD

Target

Oclaro Switzerland .

Zurich, Switzerland
Oclaro Switzerland GmbH is a manufacture of gallium arsenide laser diodes.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Coherent

Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Category Company
Founded 1971
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees26,000
Revenue 5.2B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Coherent provides engineered materials and opto-electronic components and is a vertically integrated manufacturing company that develops innovative products for diversified applications in the industrial, optical communications, military, life sciences, semiconductor equipment, and consumer markets. Coherent was founded in 1971 and is based in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 13
Sector (Semiconductors) 2 of 5
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
Country (Switzerland) 1 of 1
Year (2013) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-11-01 M Cubed

Newtown, Connecticut, United States

M Cubed develops and markets advanced composite products to original equipment manufacturers in semiconductor, display, industrial, and defense markets worldwide.

Buy $71M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-02-01 EpiWorks

Champaign, Illinois, United States

EpiWorks, Inc. is a provider of epitaxial wafers for electronic and photonic device applications. Epitaxial devices consist of nanolayers of semiconductor crystals that are uniformly deposited in sophisticated deposition tools to form an “epi-wafer.”

Buy $43M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Oclaro

San Jose, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1988
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees1,233
Revenue 601M USD (2017)
DESCRIPTION

Oclaro, Inc. is a provider of optical components, modules and subsystems for the core optical, enterprise and data center, and wireless access markets. Oclaro's solutions are at the heart of the fast optical networks and high-speed interconnects driving the next wave of streaming video, cloud computing, voice over IP and other bandwidth-intensive and high-speed applications.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector (Semiconductors) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 1
Country (Switzerland) 1 of 1
Year (2013) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-07-24 Opnext

Fremont, California, United States

Opnext, Inc. is a designers and manufacturers of optical components for the data and telecommunications industries.

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