M&A Deal Summary

Koch Industries Acquires Oplink Communications

On November 19, 2014, Koch Industries acquired electrical equipment company Oplink Communications for 445M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Koch Industries’ 2nd transaction in the Electrical Equipment sector.
  • This is Koch Industries’ 7th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Koch Industries’ 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Koch Industries’ 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2014-11-19
Target Oplink Communications
Sector Electrical Equipment
Buyer(s) Koch Industries
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 445M USD
Advisor(s) Cowen Group, Inc. (Financial)
Covington & Burling (Legal)

Target

Oplink Communications

Fremont, California, United States
Oplink is a provider of optical communication components, intelligent modules and subsystems. The company offers advanced solutions in DWDM and CWDM bandwidth creation, optical amplification, switching & routing, wavelength conditioning, monitoring & protection, connectivity and system-level integration, as well as a broad portfolio of optical transceivers for metro WDM, aggregation and access applications.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Koch Industries

Wichita, Kansas, United States
Category Company
Founded 1940
Sector Diversified
Employees60,000
Revenue 115.0B USD (2012)
DESCRIPTION

Koch Industries owns a diverse group of companies engaged in refining and chemicals; fibers and polymers; commodity and financial trading; and forest and consumer products. Koch Industries was formed in 1940 and is based in Wichita, Kansas.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 14
Sector (Electrical Equipment) 2 of 2
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 4 of 11
State (California) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 4 of 12
Year (2014) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 7 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-04-11 Flint Group Germany

Ahaus-Ottenstein, Germany

Flint Group is a leading supplier of diversified consumable graphic arts products to the global printing, converting, and colorants industry. Inks include packaging inks, heatset inks (used primarily for printing glossy magazines), coldset inks (both colour and black newspaper ink), sheet-fed inks (short-run commercial applications) and publication gravure inks (high-run printed media).

Buy €2.2B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-09-19 EFT Energy

New York, New York, United States

EFT Energy, Inc. is a software as a service and solutions provider in the fields of industrial and manufacturing predictive analytics, process optimization, and industrial and commercial energy management.

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