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M&A Deal Summary

Keywords Studios Acquires Sonox Audio Solutions

On December 22, 2016, Keywords Studios acquired digital media company Sonox Audio Solutions

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Keywords Studios’ 10th transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is Keywords Studios’ 2nd transaction in Spain.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-12-22
Target Sonox Audio Solutions
Sector Digital Media
Buyer(s) Keywords Studios
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Sonox Audio Solutions

Madrid, Spain
Sonox offers top quality audio and text localization in Spanish, Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. It has its own recording facilities in Madrid, Spain, and shares studios in Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro with its partners. Its clients include major publishers such as Electronic Arts and Blizzard.

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Buyer

Keywords Studios

Dublin, Ireland
Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Digital Media
Revenue 780M EUR (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Keywords Studios is an international technical services provider to the global video games industry. The company provides integrated art creation, localization, testing, audio, and customer care services across 50 languages and 14 game platforms to a blue-chip client base in more than 15 countries. Keywords Studios was founded in 1998 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 15 of 41
Sector: Digital Media M&A 10 of 27
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 14 of 36
Country: Spain M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2016 M&A 8 of 8
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-11-17 Enzyme Testing Labs

Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada

Enzyme Testing Labs, Inc. is one of the most recognised technical services brands in the video games industry. From AAA projects to casual mobile titles, Enzyme provides testing services on all platforms for the video-games industry. Those services include functionality testing, localisation testing, compliance testing, compatibility testing, connectivity testing and multiplayer network performance services, as well as focus groups and usability testing. Enzyme also provides localisation and multilingual customer support services.

Buy CA$5M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-02-17 Spov

London, United Kingdom

Spov Ltd. is a provider of creative development, cinematics, UI, visual effects and motion graphics services to the video game and film markets. Founded in 2007 by Allen Leitch, Spov maintains a small team of creatives in London and manages a network of highly experienced designers, animators, film makers and artists to produce intricate footage for use in video games, film and TV. The company has worked on titles that include Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Watch Dogs, The Division, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare; Batman: Arkham Knight and Marvel's Doctor Strange.

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