M&A Deal Summary

Kaiam Acquires Gemfire

On March 19, 2013, Kaiam acquired semiconductors company Gemfire

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Kaiam’s 1st transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Kaiam’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Kaiam’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-03-19
Target Gemfire
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Kaiam
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Woodside Capital Partners (Financial)

Target

Gemfire

San Jose, California, United States
Gemfire is an integrated photonics company with high volume manufacturing in Scotland. The Gemfire PhotonICTM planar technology platform enables wafer-scale processing to produce optical components, such as VMUXs, AWGs, Lithium-Niobate phase modulators and polymer VOAs.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Kaiam

Newark, California, United States

Category Company
Sector Semiconductors
DESCRIPTION

Kaiam Corporation is a private company commercializing photonic integrated circuits.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
State: California M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1