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Hill & Smith Acquires Signature

On August 4, 2016, Hill & Smith acquired infrastructure company Signature from OPmobility for 13M GBP

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Hill & Smith’s 1st transaction in the Infrastructure sector.
  • This is Hill & Smith’s 4th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Hill & Smith’s 9th transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-08-04
Target Signature
Sector Infrastructure
Buyer(s) Hill & Smith
Sellers(s) OPmobility
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 13M GBP

Target

Signature

Oldbury, United Kingdom
Signature Ltd. is a developer, manufacturer, installation and maintenance of street lighting columns, road sign and traffic management systems.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Hill & Smith

Solihull, United Kingdom
Category Company
Founded 1824
Sector Infrastructure
Employees4,559
Revenue 855M GBP (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Hill & Smith is an international group that designs, manufactures, and supplies infrastructure products and galvanizing services to global markets. Infrastructure Products - Utilities, supplying products and services such as pipe supports for the power and liquid natural gas markets, energy grid components, "GRP" railway platforms and flood prevention barriers, plastic drainage pipes, industrial flooring, handrails, access covers, and security fencing. Hill & Smith was founded in 1824 and is based in Solihull, England.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 13 of 14
Sector: Infrastructure M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: United Kingdom M&A 9 of 10
Year: 2016 M&A 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 4 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-07-14 Technocover

Welshpool, United Kingdom

Technocover Ltd. is a development, manufacture, installation and maintenance of high quality security products. Our range of certificated high security galvanised steel access products includes access doors, including the Sentinel UltraSecure fire door range, covers, cabinets/kiosks and enclosures, walk-in modular buildings, mesh cages, partitions and panels, louvres and window bar sets.

Buy £10M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2019-02-22 ATG Access

Haydock, United Kingdom

ATG Access Ltd. is a designer, manufacturer, and supplies high-security vehicle barrier systems used to secure buildings and venues from vehicular impact and terrorist attacks. ATG Access was founded in 1989 and is based in Haydock, United Kingdom.

Buy £23M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

OPmobility

Levallois-perret, France
Category Company
Founded 1946
Sector Automotive
Employees29,213
Revenue 10.5B EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION

OPmobility is an automotive exterior and structural components, fuel and emissions control systems. OPmobility was founded in 1946 and is based in Levallois-Perret, France.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 3
Sector: Infrastructure M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 3
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2016 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-06-30 Peguform

Vigo, Spain

Peguform GmbH manufactures automobile body components for Peugeot.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2018-12-18 SULO

Colombes, France

SULO is a provider of environmental services. SULO is based in Colombes, France.

Sell -
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