M&A Deal Summary

L-3 Communications Acquires Coleman Research

On January 3, 2001, L-3 Communications acquired communications company Coleman Research from Thermo Electron for 60M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is L-3 Communications’ 1st transaction in the Communications sector.
  • This is L-3 Communications’ 12th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is L-3 Communications’ 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is L-3 Communications’ 2nd transaction in Virginia.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2001-01-03
Target Coleman Research
Sector Communications
Buyer(s) L-3 Communications
Sellers(s) Thermo Electron
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 60M USD

Target

Coleman Research

Arlington, Virginia, United States
Coleman Research Corp., provides a variety of services and products including intelligence and space instrumentation as well as communications and signal processing to military customers.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

L-3 Communications

New York, New York, United States
Category Company
Founded 1997
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees38,000
Revenue 9.6B USD (2017)
DESCRIPTION

L3 Technologies, Inc. is an american company that supplies command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and products, avionics, ocean products. L3 Technologies was founded in 1997 and is based in New York.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 45
Sector (Communications) 1 of 5
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 8
State (Virginia) 2 of 5
Country (United States) 3 of 36
Year (2001) 2 of 3
Size (of disclosed) 12 of 15
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-01-03 SYColeman

Arlington, Virginia, United States

SYColeman Corp. is a provider of systems engineering, systems integration, and payload launch services to aerospace and defense programs.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-12-01 Bulova Technologies / Defense Division

United States

The Defense Division of Bulova Technologies, LLC (‘Bulova’ or the ‘Company) is the leading provider of fusing products, safe and arm devices, engineering services and other ordnance-related items to the Department of Defense and to approved international customers in over 30 countries worldwide.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Thermo Electron

Elandsfontein, South Africa
Category Company
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
DESCRIPTION

Thermo Electron Corp., is an manufacture of analytical instruments, equipment, reagents for medical purposes.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 4
Sector (Communications) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 3 of 4
State (Virginia) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 3 of 4
Year (2001) 1 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-11-08 Optronics Products

Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States

Optronics Products, Inc. is a supplier of vehicular lighting products and related accessories. The company sells a broad range of lighting products to automotive, outdoor and mass merchant retailers, as well as OEM customers.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-05-21 NuTemp

Bridgeview, Illinois, United States

NuTemp, is a supplier of rental cooling systems for the industrial refrigeration and commercial heating, ventilation and air conditioning ("HVAC") industry.

Sell -
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