Add-on Acquisition • Test/Measurement Equipment

MKS Instruments Acquires Newport

On February 23, 2016, MKS Instruments acquired test/measurement equipment company Newport for 980M USD

Acquisition Context

This is MKS Instruments’ 2nd transaction in the Test/Measurement Equipment sector.
This is MKS Instruments’ 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
This is MKS Instruments’ 5th transaction in the United States.
This is MKS Instruments’ 3rd transaction in California.

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M&A Deal Summary
Date	February 23, 2016
Target	Newport
Sector	Test/Measurement Equipment
Buyer(s)	MKS Instruments
Deal Type	Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value	980M USD
Advisor(s)	J.P. Morgan Securities (Financial)

Target Company

Newport

Irvine, California, United States

Newport Corp. is a supplier of advanced-technology products and systems to customers in the scientific research, microelectronics, life and health sciences, industrial manufacturing and defense/security markets.

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Buyer

MKS Instruments

Andover, Massachusetts, United States

Category	Company
Founded	1961
Sector	Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees	10,200
Revenue	3.6B USD (2024)

DESCRIPTION

MKS Instruments is a provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measure, control, power, monitor and analyze critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes to improve process performance and productivity. MKS Instruments was founded in 1961 and is based in Andover, Massachusetts.

Deal Context for Buyer	#
Overall	7 of 10
Sector: Test/Measurement Equipment	2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition	6 of 9
State: California	3 of 3
Country: United States	5 of 6
Year: 2016	1 of 1
Size (of disclosed)	3 of 6

PREVIOUS DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2015-03-18	Precisive Woburn, Massachusetts, United States Precisive is a developer of optical analyzers based on Tunable Filter Spectroscopy (TFS) which provide real-time gas analysis in the natural gas and hydrocarbon processing industries, including refineries, hydrocarbon processing plants, gas-to-power machines, biogas processes and fuel gas transportation and metering, while delivering customers a substantially lower total cost of ownership.	Buy	$13M

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2015-03-18

Precisive

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Precisive is a developer of optical analyzers based on Tunable Filter Spectroscopy (TFS) which provide real-time gas analysis in the natural gas and hydrocarbon processing industries, including refineries, hydrocarbon processing plants, gas-to-power machines, biogas processes and fuel gas transportation and metering, while delivering customers a substantially lower total cost of ownership.

Buy

$13M

FOLLOWING DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2017-04-03	MKS Instruments AB Malmo, Sweden MKS Instruments AB (Umetrics) is a provider of data analytics software for modeling and optimizing development and manufacturing processes. SSB has been a cooperation partner of Umetrics since the end of 2012, distributing and co-marketing their software to major players in the biopharmaceutical industry.	Sell	$73M

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2017-04-03

MKS Instruments AB

Malmo, Sweden

MKS Instruments AB (Umetrics) is a provider of data analytics software for modeling and optimizing development and manufacturing processes. SSB has been a cooperation partner of Umetrics since the end of 2012, distributing and co-marketing their software to major players in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Sell

$73M

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